Live Paint Suddenly Changed??? PLEASE!!!!

Grr. I have jusgt recently began using live paint and I was in love with it! I live painted an entire illustration and then after almost completing my poster, I noticed my illustration had changed. I used a lot of gradients in my illustration and they were all gone, and there is this black stroke around all of my work. WTF happened!!!
This is what I had originally.
This is what I have now!! Utter trash. Ugh.
Here is a close up of the black line ****.
PLEASE HELP! I am absolutely clueless and totally desperate.

There are some issues with live paint in CC.
You'd better not move it, copy/paste it or add lines to it. If you want to do one of these, better expand beforehand.

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