Geopak- Contours Linestings - plotting issues

In XM -- Geopak places contours by line strings, whether you use 3 point smooth or bspline smooth.

Trouble is, I have LiDAR generated contours, thus they are lots of little line string segments, large portions of the contours look solid b/c the dash is computed  using the little segemnts of linestring, and not for the linestring as a whole (I'd swear this was different in Ustn V8 and the plotted line strings would look ok)

See attached PDF....Any advice?