Breaking link with Symbol loses brush strokes

I'm disappointed to find that if a symbol instance containing brush strokes, is scaled and the symbol link is broken, all the brush strokes are converted to filled paths. I find, if I place an instance at 100%, then break link, the brush strokes are intact. This is also true of symbols containing Live Paint objects.
Has anyone else experienced this? I wonder why AI cannot just scale the brush width, instead of converting them to shapes.

For you, anything, Kurt.
I'm actually talking about the default CMYK artbrushes that ship with AICS2 (and maybe 10). More specifically the Chalk Scribble brush. That one seems to convert to filled paths when it's included in a symbol that's delinked once on the artboard.
I've also seen this with some custom made brushes of my own... usually complex with lots of points and curves. And I suspect what Ray sees happens with more complex brushes in symbols... scaled or otherwise depending on the particulars.

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