haha, thanks! Just a bit of a test. :)

SOLVED!! I just want to thank the Lord Jesus Christ for showing me a wonderful solution to this issue! There are a couple of ways to deal with baking normals on stacked UVs (first make sure to combine all objects that share that material into ONE object, otherwise each island will bake and bleed separately instead of as one seamless pattern): 1. For any stacked UVs that are *ALL* identical and perfectly aligned on top of each other (ie. from a mirror modifier), you shouldn't have any issues baking the normal map by selecting your Bake Type to be "Normal" and hitting "Bake". 2. For any stacked UVs that are *NOT* identical, and their material only uses a pre-existing normal map (not a bump map), you can just Ctrl-Shift click on the Normal Map texture (with Node Wrangler addon enabled) and then select "Emit" in the bake settings and bake the normal map as non-color data. Otherwise, doing a regular "Normal Map" bake may result in seams or natural bumps in the geometry showing up. 3. For any stacked UVs that are *NOT* identical, and their material uses a bump map, you may notice some "seams" appearing in the baked image along the real UV seams. This is most noticeable along any UV island edges that have some *stretching*, and becomes VERY noticeable if your normals are not too strong (not very bumpy). You can fix this by baking a perfectly flat proxy with your material applied, rather than the stacked UVs of your real object! - In edit mode, add a plane to your object that you are trying to bake and scale it to fully encompass the width of whichever part of your object has the widest UV. - Now in the UV Editor, with your source UV selected, use the Texel Density Checker add-on to calculate the TD of the widest UV in your object. After doing so, press "Calc -> Set Value" to copy that value to be the active Texel Density. Next select your plane's UV map and press "Set my TD" to set the Texel Density of your plane to match your original object. - If the plane's UV map now becomes too small to encompass your original UV, then scale the plane's UV up again until it just covers the widest part of your original UV, and pay attention to the value you scaled it by. Now scale the plane's geometry by the same amount. This will ensure the same Texel Density you selected earlier is maintained. - Now you need to copy the plane's UV into the UV map you will be using for baking. Make sure MagicUV is enabled in the addons. Press "U" in edit mode with only your plane's geometry selected. Choose "Copy / Paste UV" > "Copy" > and select your *source* UV map. Now press "U" again and choose "Copy / Paste UV" > "Paste" > and select your *baking* UV map. In Blender 3.1 you will get a python error message, but don't worry, everything still worked, you just need to exit edit mode and re-enter. - With the plane's UV copied in, you will need to scale it to the same equivalent texel density it had before. If your baking UV is going to be using a texture atlas, there's a good chance your texel density will be lower than in your source UV. If you already had the original object's UV scaled to the right size in your baking UV map, then you can use that as a reference. Select one of your object UVs in the source UV map, measure the TD and write it down. Select your plane's UV in the source map, measure the TD and write it down. Now go to the baking UV map, select the SAME object's UV you had previously measured, measure it again, and write down the TD value. Now you only need to find the TD value for the plane to use in this baking UV map. - Find a ratio calculator online (like from calculatorsoup) and input the first two TD values you wrote down from your Source UV map (Plane TD : Object TD), then leave the next slot blank (we will be solving for the Plane's new TD) and in the last slot input the Object TD from the Baking UV map. Hit calculate and copy the answer and paste it into the Set TD box in the Texel Density Checker add-on in Blender. Now with your baking UV active, and the plane's UV selected, hit "Set my TD". Make sure the plane's UV fully encompasses the original object's UV. - Now, subdivide the plane a bunch of times (I used 30 times). Enter Face select mode, turn on "UV sync selection", and in the UV editor brush select over any faces that are not needed to fully cover the shape of the original object's UV map. Delete these faces in the 3D view. You can also add loop cuts where needed if you need to crop in tighter and avoid overlapping any existing UVs in your baking UV map. - Finally you can separate this plane from your original object (P > Separate by Selection), and then bake the normals on it into your baking UV map. When you use that baked map on your original object, the normals will show perfectly on your stacked UVs without any seams!