Having problems scaling down image

Hi there, I was hoping somebody here may be able to answer a query I have.
I'm currently creating the following icon in Illustrator:
The Image was created within illustrator using the shape and pathfinder tools, the problem I'm having is that when I come to scaling it down, this happens:
The strange thing is that when I scale the icon upwards it does it perfectly as it should, but the problems are coming from scaling it down.
I think it may have something to do with the size of the image already, it's quite small, approximately 50px accross. I'm looking to get it down to about 25-30 px accross, but when i take it down to about 40px the distortion occurs and gets worse as I make it smaller.. I thought it may have something to do with the handles on the anchor points overlapping? But I'm not so sure as I've never had an issue like this before, although I've never worked at this small scale before either.
Any help on this is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Lionel.

In your transform palette turn OFF align to pixel grid, prior to scaling. Adobe since CS5 has made that to be on by default when you create an RGB document.

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