After Effects Scale Issues with Drawing Lines?

If anyone can help, it would be great. I'm so ticked off I'm about ready to scrap my entire project and give up! I've spent all day on one problem and I give up.
I created a road map in Illustrator. It's a very large file since it's an entire state - so it's very detailed. I want to bring this into AE and then in AE draw a route line along the roads to show the viewer how to drive the route. In some cases, the map will be zoomed into an area to show the route in an area. In others, I'd like to show the entire state on the screen and draw the route across the state.
In practice, I didn't have a problem with this with my tests. However, now that I'm using this large Ai file, it just won't work.
First, the shape layer line either is too wide (2.0px is 3" wide on my screen, so I have to take it down to something like 0.1 to make it look correct), or the line won't stay with the layer when I parent it in 3D. I want to draw the line (route), then move the comp (or a camera) to look more like 3D mapping. I've tried the camera, too, and nothing works. Even when it seems I can draw the line, I can't click anywhere near the last point without grabbing the last point, which makes it impossible to follow the roads.
My only guess is it's something with the size of the Ai state-wide, detailed map? But I don't understand how this can be resolved. Please help.
Scott

Sorry, good point. I'm so upset over this that I didn't think of screen shots.
Here is the vector Ai as it's imported into the comp:
Here it is scaled out to 16% (entire state):
Then, I scale in to the Chicago area to get close enough to see the roads and start drawing my route with the pen tool:
You can see in the above screen shot that the yellow line (the route) looks pretty good, but from my last click (end of the line) to where the next click needs to be (cursor), I can't click. It thinks I'm hovering over the past click point or something? And in this example, if I move the cursor down from where it is now, I almost get to the green box before it allows me to click to place a point.
What's strange, is I can move the points (whatever they are called) around and very close together, but I can't draw my line that way. And when I try to move down the map to continue my line, and I click the "Path 1" to continue drawing, sometimes it just adds points on top of the last point of the line. I'd think this is the same issue that I clicked too close to the last point? I don't get it!?!?

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