Condense 500 paths into 1

so, i have a graphic that has a large number of tiny little paths (see attached). the problem is that it has so much information in it that illustrator really chugs anytime i do anything with it (like resize, move, etc). if i use the pathfinder to unite the paths, all it does is group them, seemingly because the paths don't always touch.
is there a way to "unexpand" or join these paths so that they become one object?

Unfortunately Illustrator is the achor in the Adobe suite.... and I don't mean anchor as in the place all things generate from or are bound to. I mean "anchor" an is the slow, painful, app that is outperformed by just about every other Adobe app on the market. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love Illustrator. But it's performace is not one of it's strong spots.
Illustrator is not a multithreaded app.. so a single processor is all it sees. Illustrator is a 32bit app so 3GB of RAM is all it sees. Illustrator is not aware of GPUs so screen redraw can be slow.
There's not much you can do to improve things. The more complex artwork gets in Illustrator the slower the app gets when it must redraw things. The best you can to is use the Layers Panel or object hiding to limit the number of items Illustrator must draw with each action.
Until Illustrator receives some sort of performance boost from Adobe, there's no real way around your problem if you want objects to remain vector.

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Is move() the best way to add existing paths to a new compound path?
Thanks!

Im at work at the moment so only have access to CS2 where the second script works… The first script worked at home with CS5…
here were my test files… Before
and After…
As you can see with this I did not change the polarity of the last path as in this test case I knew it was the largest of the shapes not sure if that had any bearing on my results…?

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Hi,
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can you please suggest on this ?
Thanks,
Bharath
Edited by: user1175364 on Oct 26, 2010 1:57 PM

Hi,
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I'm currently writing an app which should display a nice graph (chart) on
its front panel. I choose to use Mapinfo Active X.
To do this, I've placed an Automation Refnum on my front panel, and in the window
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