CC 2014, Illustrator, type with Drop Shadows what's different about them?

I just tried to give a line of type a drop shadow, using Creative Cloud Illustrator CC 2014. When I first apply the drop shadow a blur shows up and the only what I can give it a shape is and by going to O inches blur. What on earth is going on...do I have a bad copy of Illustrator?
I'm using Illustrator on a PC running Windows 7 Professional, has an Haswell i5 processor and 16 GB of memory. I'm using the 64 bit version of CC 2014
When I've gone to Help it won't accept drop shadow and type for illustrator at all.
Thank you very much, in advance. Any help would really be appreciated appreciated.

This is what I get: Mode: Normal; Opacity: 75%; X Offset: 0.1 in; Y offset: 0.1 in; Blur: 0.1in Color: Black

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