Illustrator not recognizing my pattern bounding box

I'm trying to create a repeating pattern. I have a pattern bounding box at the bottom of the stack which has no fill and no stroke. However, when I try to define the pattern, Illustrator doesn't seem to see the bounding box, and instead creates a tile which is larger than I intended. I've tried ungrouping everything, putting it all onto the same layer and everything else I can think of, but nothing so far has worked. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I finally solved this - I had to redraw the bounding box. Copying and pasting the original one didn't work, but when I used it as a guide and drew a new one over it, Illustrator finally recognized it. Bizarre.

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