Hmmm. That's all I've been able to achieve at this point but take a look at this: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/index.php?tutorial_id=1552&page=6

Some of the paths After Live Trace are a single path traced automatically by Live Trace. The eye is traced around as you describe, but the nose, forehead & ears for example only contain a single path.

I want to achieve that single path stroke.

More specifically, I'm working with bitmapped Kanji. My Live Trace settings trace around it as attached. What I want is what appears to be traced in the nose, forehead and ears area in jwebster45206's tutorial above. 

If I must trace the center of these strokes by hand I will, but I see the center of strokes being traced automatically in the tutorial so I don't want to.

Perhaps there is something I'm not understanding from the tutorial?