[LAU] PortAudio and Audacity+jack

I'd really like to use Audacity through Jack. Unfortunately it's behavior complicates this. I can load up a file, but nothing shows up in jack connections until I hit play. Then two PortAudio channels appear! If I stop playback they disappear. The next time I press play they appear again, but incremented by 2 and, of course, not connected to my out channels. This was all covered in an old thread here: http://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=552 The best solution I could find there was to use PatchBay. That kind of works, except the two PortAudio output sockets created by Audacity automatically connect to the first two input sockets on my system which don't happen to be where the monitor cables plug in (they're in 10 and 11). Is there a way to specify which output plug routes to which input plug via patchbay or is it stuck at the socket level with no finer-grained control? In a pinch, is there another mp3 capable audio player that works with jack without jumping through any more hoops than just starting the app? -Scott p.s. Using PortAudio v19, Audacity 1.3.5-beta