Compound Path Trouble - Type to Outlines

I've had these issues for years, wherein I'll convert some type to outlines, and the counters of letterforms that have them are filled in!
The paths are still there, but no amount of futzing or making compound, or releasing and trying again, will make them come back.*
Has anyone developed a fix to this problem?
If so, thank you for sharing it with me!
katt
*Sometimes it turns out that a duplicate path is directly on top of another, but most of the time, the "compoundness" seems broken, for lack of better phrasing..

If you
Create outliens form type
Release compound path
then try to make this a compound path again
your result wil be broken compoiunf paths
If you
Create outliens form type
Release compound path
Ungroup
then try to make this a compound path again
your result will be good

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