Live paint to image without covering lines in image?

I am using Live Paint in CS5 after tracing a line drawing, and I am finding that I am able to apply paint to the image, though it is covering up some of the lines. How canI apply the paint while making sure that the lines are not painted over?
Thanks.

Define "lines."
You can set options for whether the LivePaint tool applies fills or strokes separately. But the usual beginner's results of autotracing (LiveTrace) doesn't contain strokes. What the user thinks of as strokes in the original image are rendered as fills by most of the default autotracing presets.
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