Shape Builder Issue

I'm working on a celtic weave type design at the moment and previously it would work perfectly fine using shape builder, but when I started to use CS6 at school it gave me weird results. I could use my computer at home for it, but most of the time I'm in school so I'd like to figure out what is making it change. I'm using CS5 at home by the way. Here's a pic of what is going on:
Notice the jumbled mess at the points that are highlighted? I have no idea what is going on, weird curves start to form and also as a whole it starts to change the curve shape, which I don't want. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

Rather than shape builder use appearance with 2 strokes (thiiner one for white, and a thicker one for black).
Fo roverlaps, copy and paste in front a little chunk (you can trim with the path eraser tool under pencil).Pretend the pink is white, I colored the chunk pink so you can see better see how to do this.

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Message was edited by: Mark Luthringer

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