Drawing glitch in Appleworks

Hi. I got my eMac with Appleworks in spring of '05. Last summer I was learning to draw on the computer using Appleworks and the Missing Manual, and just figuring it out as I went along. There was one funny thing that happened that I wonder if anyone can explain.
I did a drawing of a boy sitting on a stool reading a book, with a dragon looking over his shoulder (an illustration of About Fantasy). Everything was carefully placed front to back, grouped and regrouped.
Most of it was done with the freehand tool, but I drew the stool with the rounded rectangle tool. When I rotated or resized the drawing, most every thing was fine, but the pieces of the stool, even though they were grouped, fell apart into a pile of sticks! (correctly resized or rotated, though) Everything had to be totally reassembled.
It was sort of funny — the first time.
The point of a vector drawing is the resizability, of course. Has anyone an idea what happened, and if there's a fix for it?
eMac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) iPhoto 4.0.3
eMac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) iPhoto 4.0.3 Appleworks 6.2.9

Hi Mina,
It's a known issue, but AFAIK, there's not a known remedy. The problem has been around since AppleWorks 5 or earlier. You'll find the it extends to the clip art supplied with AppleWorks as well.
Regards,
Barry

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