Drop shadow has white boxes Illustrator to Indesign

MAC OSX G5 Adobe CS2
I know I'm probably being stupid, as no-one else seems to be asking this question, Buuuut...
I've created a logo in Illustrator CS2, applied a dropshadow to a couple of areas of it, and now I want to place into my Indesign artwork. Simple huh?
I get white boxes appearing behind the dropshadow areas, and they are not transparent in Indesign, despite expanding.
What have I missed?
Lorraine

My apologies - I was a little too curt. I should have pointed out that transparency using spot colors outside of Illustrator does not work unless you turn over-printing on.

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