Solved it myself, thanks for nothing.
If anyone else should get as frustrated as me with it, the translation of the manual is incorrect. The routes do not OVERLAP, i.e. the outbound and inbound do not overlap. The outbound route has to end on precisely the same spline/segment that the inbound route begins on, and vice versa. If you overlap them, whilch to me means you can have more than one extra spline/segment on either route, then it doesn't work.