Effect: Outline Stroke doesn't work

I'm on CS2. The Effect "Outline Stroke" doesn't seem to do anything.
I would have expected to be able to colour the fill of the outlined stroke in the same way as if the stroke had been outlined using Object: Path: Outline Stroke. Am I doing something wrong?

I need to keep the original vector path without expanding its appearance.
The strange thing is that when I've got the Outline Stroke effect running I can put a pattern into it but not a gradient.
To do a gradient I have to use the Offset Path effect with a value of half the stroke's original weight, make the stroke weight zero and then put a gradient fill into it. So if the original path was 12 pt I need to offset it by 6 pt.
Stranger still, the selection tools pick up the vector even though I click outside the path. Seems that the area selection is controlled by the bounding box and not by what you see.
Seems a clumsy way of doing things and can get very confusing when you've got a lot of overlapping lines with various gradient fills and transparency.

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I am trying to create shapes out of my strokes. I have created several icons like this already but for some reason it suddenly doesn't do anything anymore.
It shows up in the appearance panel, but doesn't seem to be affecting the stroke.

GS,
Something seems to have confused Illy so she thinks you want it as an effect.
It may be time for the list:
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file, and when it is not caused by issues with opening a file from external media, see below. You may have tried/done some of them already; 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
If possible/applicable, you should save current artwork first, of course.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to at least 5 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible), for CS3 - CC you may find the folder here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/preference-file-location-illustrator.html
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall (ticking the box to delete the preferences), run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

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I am trying to recreate the effect described here (http://opentype.info/blog/2012/08/09/the-google-maps-effect-in-adobe-illustrator/) - to whit, a a non-destructive, merged series of paths with a complete outline, with paths that can be resized at will without affecting any other paths, and any overlap areas should merge.* I have only been able to replicate it once and I cannot seem to do it a second time. Every single time I go to Effect > Path > Outline Stroke, nothing happens: an ‘outline stroke’ effect tab is added on the appearance panel, but nothing at all happens to my lines, they don’t change in the slightest.
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Copy of file:
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* I am aware that the article is from 2012 and was thus done on CS5, not CS6, but like I said, I did get it to work once in CS6 already.

I tried that, it didn't work. It just adds another stroke under the first - it doesn't work as an outline

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(sweet, we can link Youtube's right in the posts, never tried it)
I'm sorry man . . . I'm still mystified here . . . I can't get Outline Stroke to work like the above-linked Illy 10 Style Demo.
I took her Distort > Roughen circle, with Outline Stroke applied so that the stroke becomes an outlined path and the subsequent Roughen affects it like it's been outlined and tried to duplicate the outcome from scratch, but I can't do it!
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Effect: Outline Stroke doesn't work

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