Need help rotating a drawing without creating distortion

I have drawn something in Illustrator CS3 using the shape tools and have addded a few effects. I want to rotate this shape at different angles and use it throughout my project. When I free rotate it becomes distorted and no longer looks like what I had drawn. Is there a way to lock the drawing, so that when I rotate it, it stays in tact?

It is usuallly and best not to use the free transform tool fo this tye or rotation or movement.
Use Effects>Distort and Transform>Transform
if you need to distort it use the Free Distort tool also under the Distort and Transform Effect.
The good thing about these is that you can always get back to where you began and if you had CS 4 you can turn them on and off
and so you can have multiple adjustments that can be turned on and off at will as long as you are using CS 4 or later.
In your case though you can always delete them and you can see what your settings are and you can change them without starting all over.

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