Bug fix in Illustrator CS4

Hi All
Working with an older version (CS4) and cant find an answer or bug fix anywhere. As you can see in my screenshot, I have a problem with fine white lines going through my pattern. Its a swatch I made and I have checked there are no strokes anywhere. I did turn off Anti-Aliased Artwork in general but the results were no white lines but lots of pixilation obviously so that didnt work. Yes I did use pathfinder. Lots of places Ive looked say its a bug but no one gives a fix.
I know they wont print but this is for a digital paper pack so its imperative that it displays for a perfect view.
Can anyone help or maybe point me in a tutorial that makes perfect polka dots another way. Thankyou so much

BostonBay,
What I mean by changing the pattern is to place the corners ot the tiles midway between (the centres of) dots instead of in the centre of a dot
More particularly, either moved up/down and to the left/right by half the centre distance along a line with a slope of +/-45 degrees in connexion with a horizontal/vertical tile, or by half the centre distance along a horizontal/vertical in connexion with a tile having a slope of +/-45 degrees.
Either will create a tile with whole dots surrounded by white at all the sides. The former will look the same as your image (only without the hairline gaps), but it will have an irregular distribution of white round the dots. The latter will have a regular distribution of white round the dots, but will need to be rotated by +/-45 degrees to look the same.
There are different terms to describe (ranges of) colours, I might have used a more detailed one, such as purplish red.
Pink may also be seen as a woolly term, covering a range of pale reds and reddishnesses.

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