Why are funky colors showing up on my PDF files after I outline strokes?

Hi, I'm a self taught Illustrator user and am ignorant on a lot of things! I'm using Illustrator CS2. Sometimes I will hit the command to outline the strokes in my artwork and everything looks just fine until I save it as a PDF file. When the file comes up some of the outlines show up in all kinds of funky colors. The file prints fine and appears fine when viewed in Illustrator, the PDF file just looks rediculous! Does anyone know what I am doing wrong. I would really appreciate your insight. Thank you.

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