Downsaving, Backsaving, or Legacy Saving CS6 to CS5 Rasterization (a bug)

I have this image that I've created for a client in Adobe Illustrator CS6 on WIndows. Their designer has CS5.5 on a Mac. The image contains the following:
Multiple artboards
Inner Glow
Layer transparency
Transparent Gradients
Strokes on gradients
blends
multiple clipping masks
When I try to save the file back to CS5 I get a rasterized image in an Illustrator file instead of what I'm expecting. Has anyone else had this problem?

What's really happening:
The problem is the strokes on the gradients because that's a new feature in AI CS6.
Work-around:
When I expand appearance on the strokes on the gradients in CS6, it makes the gradient strokes into mesh gradients (not completely desireable or intuitive. However when I and save back to cs5 format it opens as expected in CS 5.5.
Original: If you have to do this, you can still adjust the thickness of the now expanded stroke (technically a mask over a gradient) by selecting the path and using object path offset path.
Correction: The option to use offset path is not the same as it would be on a mask containing a gradient. If the stroke is of a complex shape (eg. a stroke with rounded tips containing a gradient.) it will more than likely have to be redrawn to preserve the appearance.
Suggested work-flow: If you know something will ultimately be saved back to a different version
Suggestion for Adobe:
Because the PDF interpreter in the older version of CS5 doesn't understand the new feature it throws an error. If you copy from CS6 and paste to CS5.5 it will show you the error, then CS 5.5 expands all of the editable features in the file. What should happen is when someone saves back to CS5 from CS6 in the plug-in it should expand appearance on all strokes that contain gradients to be an outlined path container for the stroke with the gradient as the fill. Converting to mesh gradients is highly undesireable on spot color images.

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