SHAPE BUILDER ADDING UNWANTED ANCHORS AND PATHS

I am new to Illustator, just learning. My Shape Builder tool is exhibiting behavior that I cannot explain!
I am doing a simple flower exercise and, having successfully created an 8 petal flower with my Ellipse and
Shapebuider (minus) tool, I am trying to color the areas of the petals. When I do this with the Shapebuilder (Color) tool,
it colors the correct areas but then also creates, unevenly and seemingly at random, additional paths (with many anchor points) right along my edges
all over my shape. It also appears to be shifting adjacent paths over slightly.
3 images attached:
• First, the basic shape I'm hoping to color. Looks perfect. No extraneous anchor points, etc. This was created step-by-step with a tutorial.
• Next: The same shape after filling with the Shape Builder tool. Notice the additional paths and anchor points. Basically, this is a complete mess!
• Finally, the colored shape with the stroke removed. I'm completely stumped. Help! And thanks much..
A similar issue occurs when I try to merge areas of this shape with the Shape Builder Tool.
Message was edited by: Mark Luthringer

Turn off the align to pixel grid options in the transform panel and the prefs.
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