How to find and delete multiple overlapping cut contour paths?

Help!
Background: My job requires that I print vinyl cut letters and shapes. I do this by creating a cut contour path in illustrator with a spot color as a stroke, so that once printed, there will be instructions on the print showing where to cut and the cutter will recognize the marks.
My problem is that, for some reason, the cutter is going back over the cut path a 2nd time, as if there is more than one cut contour path in the file. But looking at the eps file in Illustrator, I don't see any extra overlapping paths with another stroke. It just looks like there is one pink line so it's very frustrating to know that there are actually extra cut paths that the cutter is reading that I don't know about. Is there a way for me to either A) find all of the paths and turn off the spot color swatch on all of them and just apply it to the one I need or B) find all paths and delete overlapping ones that I don't need?
Someone also suggested that I might be getting extra overlapping cut paths in different Layers(?) I'm just really not sure what to do or how to find these and weed them out. Any help would be appreciated. I am relatively new to Illustrator and haven't found it a very intuitive program to learn, but maybe I just need a lot more practice.
Thank you!

You need to rebuild the file, as there is no way to fix any overalapping or duplicate paths.
I make a layer for every color of vinyl, and then drag the selection square to the proper color layer. When done you can use the pathfinder command to unite each layer, to get rid of duplicate shapes.
You alwasy want to proof before you send to cut, by doing a command Y to view your work in outline mode.

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