Colored Drop Shadow on a Black Ground in CS5

I'm wondering if there's any way to create a colored Drop Shadow on a black ground in Illustrator.  I'm using CS5 on a windows box.  The Drop Shadow shows when I hide the black ground (of course) but I cannot, for the life of me, find out how to make it show on top of the ground, even after sendeing the 'ground' to the back.  I've even tried the Black 'ground' on its own layer and have it at the bottom of the layers Palette.
I would appreciate any help if at all possible.

The drop shadows are set to Multiply Mode by default, I believe. Multiply doesn't show on black. If you change the mode to Normal you will see a coloured drop shadow. This will be found in the Drop Shadow dialog.

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