Illustrator CS6 Live Trace negative image

Hello,
We have recently updated our office Adobe Creative Suite, and are now using Illustrator CS6 to clean-up hand drawn sketches. When we run any sort of trace on a simple, black and white line drawing, the trace results in a negative image: the white background turns black, and the outline of the sketch is white. We have tried checking the "ignore white" box and several other settings changes. Does anyone know how to fix this, or prevent it from happening? Initially, for our first few times using the new suite this didn't happen:

Wow, that looks strange. Could you post one of the original sketches files?

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