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Most of us are tweakaholics or, in my case, more or less an obsessive compulsive. I really cannot see what you are thinking is rotten. Having some water drip through the bolts of the genoa track is not, in itself, a big problem unless the deck around it has been compromised in the process. All the stuff I see in your pictures is covering material, not structural. I recently removed all the screws on all the tracks (great winter project) because mine were leaking a bit here and there (telltale salt accumulations). I drilled out the holes to a larger size, filled the holes with epoxy (taped below, poured in from the top), redrilled the holes through epoxy for the correct sized new screws. Hint: Bed the whole thing in 4200 and have someone hold the screws with a giant screwdriver and tighten everything with a socket. Buy long screws (at least 1" longer than the depth) and break them off after you have tightenend them as they are of varying lengths that are not sold in stores and there is little clearance for the coverings. You have the easy side open. The galley side requires removing some of the kitchen cabinet work and (in some of the later models) reaching up through access ports to get to the track's underside (make access ports if you do not have them already). If the deck is rotten around the track you have a problem, if not you just have a project. I do not recall anyone really having the deck delaminated from leaks from these tracks, but I might be wrong. It is a nasty job, but you will feel really good when it is done.
Good luck.
Ray
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