Vertices skew when scaling down

I have a semi complex (~50 vertices) object that I created at a larger size.

When scaling the graphic down, the vertices start to move in relation to each other. In other words the spacing gets screwed up.

Below is a comparison of what I mean.





I've been using Illustrator for around 7 years and have never run into this issue. I'm assuming there must be a setting that got changed somewhere that would be causing this. I also appear to have issues with points moving when applying a stroke. An octagon turned into almost a triangle after applying a stroke. Even after removing the stroke the vertices remained skewed.

Isn't this why we design in vector? So we don't have scale issues?

Any help you could provide would be great! Thanks.

Thanks for getting back to me les,

I trashed the AIprefs file found under <%appdata%\AdobeAdobe Illustrator CS5 Settings\en_US\AIPrefs> but it seems to have no effect.

I am scaling from 250px, down to 18px. Am I just asking to much of Illustrator?

Thanks again les,

If you wouldn't mind taking a quick look. Just scale it down to something like 15px or so and if you have the same issue that must be it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?losp6ybpyo1rele

above is the link to the file.

Your file scales with no issues, so that solves it.

Thanks a lot! I didn't think I was crazy, but you never know. Luckily it's a simple file, or else that would have sucked.

Once again thanks a bunch, and have a great one!