Align stroke will not work in Adobe CS 5 Illustator

Hi, I am trying to align a line around an object that was created using the tool pen in Illustrator.  It is the version of Adobe Creative Suite CS5, using Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron.

After opening an Illustrator, I created a new file / page of degassing.  A number of anchor points have been created with the pen tool, until they form a star, which is closed without leaving space in the race.  This is so that it can be shated.  I then went in the appearance palette, where I clicked on properties of the race.  Corner and Cap options all work, but when my cursor is at the top of the race to align, cursor turns into a weird icon and I can't do anything with the alignment of the race.

Google results resulted mainly in people with this problem with text but no clear solution.

I screen captured the problem on youtube for easy reference.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSAlU4hqOBc

Any help with this would be much appreciated.

It seems that you do not have a closed full path. Select the object and go to Menu > window > Document Info. Use the passage to the menu outside in this Panel to select the submenu object. Now, the Panel displays information of path, how many points and if it is a closed path.

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