Erasers? Nope, you still don't need them. Coleen, try 'Locking' the 'Live Effect' before performing any Add, Subtract, Intersect, Slice, etc. operations on an object with a 'Live Effect' applied to it.
Your example and an excerpt from the Xara Designer Pro 7 manual follows...
Hopefully that will help you complete your project,
HayTay
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