Drop shadow affects background colour when printing to PDF

I have a diagram in AI format with drop shadows against a coloured background. When I print it from Illustrator to PDF, the background colour around the objects with drop shadows is slightly out, leading to a "blocky" effect. Also, some lines that overlap with the drop shadows are thickened.
I've embedded the diagram in a FrameMaker file and the same problem is evident when I create a PDF from FrameMaker.
The problem is partially solved by saving a copy of the file as an EPS, and embedding this in the FrameMaker document. The "blocky" effect then goes away, but there are still some overly thick lines.
Here is what the PDF image looks like:
Thanks for any light anyone can shed on this problem.

All the colours in the picture are process colours. I found the page you refer to earlier, but it didn't seem to apply to my problem. Thanks anyway.
I've read around the Web, and it looks as though the problem is to do with the fact that drop shadows are a raster effect rather than a vector one. I think this means that the areas around the drop shadow get rendered in RGB, while the rest of the diagram is in CMYK.
Anyhow, as I said, the problem seems basically to have been that I wasn't using a high enough quality set of job options for output.
I inherited these diagrams from a previous colleague, and by selecting "HQ Print with bleed marks" I get them as good as he got them, though as I said the thick lines are still there (as they were in his documents).

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:20:28 -0700
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Subject: Text getting cut off when printing to PDF from Excel
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