Illustrator CC Compound Path backward compatibility issues

I have a file created in CS6, it contains compound paths, it will not open correctly in CC. I have saved it as .eps, and down to illustrator 10 with no success on CC. CC drops many of the paths, and creates bizarre transparencies that do not exist in the original file. I need to share this file (and many others like it) with colleagues who are on CC... but cannot figure out what is going on. Any suggestions are welcome as I've hit a wall here... I've never seen anything like it.
Links to the files in question:
Saved to v10: Dropbox - badconversion_AI10.ai
Saved to EPS from CS6 Dropbox - badconversion.eps
Thanks.

When opening your CS6 file in CC it looks like this:
The EPS looks like this:
The Ai 10 looks like this:
Since I don't know how it should look, I can't know what went wrong.
Usually if you just hand them the CS6 file it should cause the least problems. Converting it to EPS or Ai10 makes no sense at all when all the other people use Illustrator CC.

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