Help with Live Paint - filling in part of an image

I have imported a dfw image into illustrator. It's a black and white image of an object similar to the one below:
I want to paint the areas around the perimeter of the image black so that it looks like it has a large black outline (the areas that contain the X's). I've been able to do it on a few but some of the images, when I open them, the live paint selects only inner areas that I don't want painted. I can't figure out how to change the paths to the ones I want.
I import the image, select all, Object>Live Paiint>Make. Then I set the fill to black. In this example, there are 3 stripes on each pants leg and the only thing Live Paint will select is the outermost stripe. I've tried Object>LivePaint>Expand then reselect the Live Paint Buckeet and click the image when it says, "Click to make Live Paint Group" but nothing changesso that I can paint the desired areas.
I've checked the image closely to ensure there are no breaks in the paths and I've just spent the last 4 hours reading instructions and watching videos but no help. I'm braind new ti Illustrator and must be missing something bassic but don't know what. Any help would be appreciated. I'm stumped.

I should have posted this hours ago. As soon as I did I found the answer. For anyone else with this problem, Select the image then, before using the Live Paint Bucket, select Object>Flatten Transparacy. Then, when you select the live paint bucket, it will ask for you to set the paths and after you do, it'll work just fine.

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composite - normal
I have tried every other combo with the live type set up and nothing works. Does any one have a fix for this? thanks
tyler

In LiveType / Edit / Project Properties (command+0) / Presets HDV 1080i60...
In Final Cut Express / Easy Setup (control-Q) HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60...
Import the LiveType project file directly into Final Cut Express...
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