Daedalus,
I appreciate what you have said here. And by no means did I take you wrong. I made this quite some time ago, and have since learned a better way of doing it. When I made the cross through the "O", I used the pen tool to create a path around the cross and then created a custom shape from it. Which in all aspects should have worked. The problem I have noticed with this method is that as the shape is made bigger, it seems to cause the effect you are talking about. I also believe (but I am not certain) that I made the shape from the smaller image that I had, instead of enlarging it first (which would have made a difference). I also had some font issues when I recreated this, that gave me a "close enough for government work" attitude about it. I would have remade this in a better fashion, but due to the overwhelming lack of interest (ha ha) I figured my time would be better served on something else.