I went to the store and bought a scrunchie for my bass. Yes, I made sure it was black.
Anyway, immediately my tapping lines got better. I can run through some arpeggios and not get a weird secondary noise. I still feel like I cheating, but like someone else said, if Victor Wooten is doing it, why can I? I haven't posted an clips in a while, but I expect to get some up pretty soon.
Also, I found a neato program TablEdit. It's demoware, but you can use all the features up to 16 bars. I just gives you an annoying prompt when you do some things, but other than that, it works fine. You can export tabs to text (like we use here), midi, html, and some other formats. It allow you to do tabs for as many strings as you like. I configured mine for my 8 string. Now, when I learn something, I can tab it out. Get it! I'm testing it out some more, but I may just buy the full version. There is another program called "TabIt". Tabit doesn't allow you to do custom string configurations. It only supports 4 and 5 strings. It also doesn't allow you to export to MIDI, unless you buy the full version.
If anyone wants these programs let me know. I can put them on my site for a while. Again, these are demo programs, but they allow you to use full features, albeit restricted.