CC Light Burst & CC Ball Action & CC Sphere

Hi,
I really need your help. I'm making a universal logo (from Maxafterhttp://maxafter.com/tuts/universalStudio/universal.html) on adobe after effects cs6
I used a black white earth map with CC BALL action, like this
When I precomposed it and added a CC Sphere to it, the balls catched shadows
like this:
and i was not able to add CC Light Burst to it, otherwise I got all those weird
white black streaks, instead of only white:
I have no idea what to do, Please help!

I moved the discussion from Forum Comments.
EDIT: just noticed that the user has started another thread, http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1029285?tstart=0 this one will be locked.

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