Dead Eddie,
I believe the solution I am going to go with is creating different templates for these particular sections that just house other sub-sections and linking to them with static page content. It will look as if it is the section displaying the sub-categories. In reality, it is a static page with nothing displayed but the html content (i.e. hide page title, author, etc).
Do you see any drawbacks to this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEWLLjcD-9w#t=28
Though, if I knew what to call to have a php script loop through the sections sub-sections and print the links, I would technically only have to create a single new template, not multiple.
Anyone?