Layer Style - Zoom In Issue

I have a jpg image in AE CS3 - I used a layer style - stroke of about 10 pixels to make it look like it had a white border.
When I put the image into 3d space and zoom move it further into z space, the stroke gets very big - as I zoom in the stroke gets smaller.
How can I make the stroke appear to stay the same size? I'm zooming in and out with a camera.
Thanks!

I've found a solution for this...I put my jpeg into a pre-composition and moved all of it's attributes to the new composition. The stroke now stays in place.

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