SVG Invisible Lines

I have a series of SVG files that I want to play with and then convert to tif. When I open them in illustrator CS2 the strokes are huge and the rest of the file is tiny. I have already dealt with this by developing a neat script to fix all the scaling issues. My problem is now that some of the lines appear to be invisible but they are still present. Is there some way to force them visible? I could easily set all strokes to a certain value so that the lines would appear but I would rather not do that as different lines have different strokes. For now I have to go through each file and assign them strokes by hand. Any help on this issue would be appreciated.

Bruce, I don't use SVG and there for know very little about it but this opens the file for me…
#target illustrator
var svgFile = new File('~/Desktop/Testing.svg');
var docRef = app.open(svgFile, DocumentColorSpace.RGB);
with (docRef) {
// do stuff here

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