Stroke alignment buttons ghosted out seemingly randomly

This has to be something many of you face - I've noticed it in Illustrator for many versions - you go to use the 3 stroke alignment buttons on the Stroke panel: inside, center and outside, but they're ghosted out.
When this happens only one isn't ghosted - the one currently in use.
The objects I'm dealing with are basic, native Illustrator rectangles, circles, etc. Text objects have stroke limitations but I'm not referring to that.
Usually a little messing around - clicking off the objects onto something else then back on, etc will solve it.
Anyone know?

Very true. But, I'm dealing with closed paths, not incomplete ones.

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Hi All,
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Unless one is working in ColdFusion, or has special
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Hi,
I wonder if anyone out there could help me or point me in the right direction to solve this problem im having.
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I have set it out like this to allow me to quickly test out different components without changing the main structure of the program.
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Now to me that one line shouldnt make a differene to the program in any significant way. But anyway thats just a small example to show you what my problem is.
These problems started when i made a class Span (http://rex.homeip.net/~matt/java/gui/src/gui/graphs/Span.java) which as you can see does nothing special, but when i use it from another class (http://rex.homeip.net/~matt/java/gui/src/gui/GraphViewer.java) all hell breaks loose. Now i know the class is being loaded and methods can be called from it (line 84) but if i try to call setSpan() then i get the error Local variable name has bad constant pool indexIf anyone has any clues please let me know, im getting sick of going round in circles.
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Matt
links
Main loading class: http://rex.homeip.net/~matt/java/loader/src/loader/Loader.java
Class Loader: http://rex.homeip.net/~matt/java/loader/src/loader/setup/SetupManager.java
GUI: http://rex.homeip.net/~matt/java/gui/src/gui/Gui.java
GraphViewer: http://rex.homeip.net/~matt/java/gui/src/gui/GraphViewer.java
Span: http://rex.homeip.net/~matt/java/gui/src/gui/graphs/Span.java

I think I have the solution....
I had the same exact (seemingly random) ClassFormatExceptions being thrown from my custom Class-Loader as well. I would get the same variety of debug prints as you (Invalid constant pool, Code segment has wrong length, etc). At times it seemed to happen randomly to different classes that I loaded, depending on small changes I made to the code.
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int numRead = 0;
int offset = 0;
byte[] classBytes = new byte[total];
do
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