Drop shadow causing faint rectangles showing in final printed book cover

Greetings experts!
Hoping I can get a translation and a nod as to whether I am on the right track. I have taken a two-day beginner's course in InDesign and am getting past the edge of my knowledge on this issue.
Publishing a 112-page book, perfect bound, with full color cover.
The printer ran the cover a little darker this time, and some pesky faint rectangles showed up around the book title which is reversed out of a photograph. The title has a drop shadow.
I found the following reference, but am not sure what the terms mean and what I'm supposed to adjust. Any help much appreciated. See below for article reference.
Kindest regards,
spnDesign
"Clip Complex Regions Ensures that the boundaries between vector artwork and rasterized artwork fall along object paths. This option reduces stitching artifacts that result when part of an object is rasterized while another part of the object remains in vector form. However, selecting this option may result in paths that are too complex for the printer to handle.
"Stitching, where rasters and vectors meet.
Note: Some print drivers process raster and vector art differently, sometimes resulting in color stitching. You may be able to minimize stitching problems by disabling some print-driver specific color-management settings. These settings vary with each printer, so see the documentation that came with your printer for details."

A couple of other things: check your transparency settings, and set them to High Resolution.
When printing to press, you should always use/send CMYK unless the printer asks you not to. Sending RGB images to press is asking for them to be converted on the fly and you may see color shifts.
Also, check the level of PDF compatibility you're using when converting to PDF. Converting at 5.0 and later passes transparency into the PDF, but converting at 4.0 causes it to flatten transparent elements, and you may get better results. Drop shadows created in InDesign are transparent elements.
Finally, if the drop shadows ARE created in InDesign, I've seen a note somewhere that the transparency effect blend mode should not be set to "multiply," even thought that is the logical mode to use. This may have been an issue only at CS2 however.

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