3d extrude and bevel classic with stroke

I'm having a weird issue that is causing me a lot of grief.  I'm wanting to take an object, taper it (or rotate it on its x-axis) to give it a 3d feel.  When I do this its fine.  However, if I try to stroke the entire group to get a nice line around my entire art I only get a potion of the stroke to show up.  I've noticed that if I turn the rotation off, the stroke works mostly correct.

It was suggested that I save this into version 3, load that file and try to stroke the group but that still doesn't work.  The rotation is still being observed.

I've worked with illustrator for years and this is the first time I've ever been stumped on what to do with this.  All the videos I watched says I'm doing it right just can't get it to actually work.