Drop shadow on master won't go away

I mistakenly added a drop shadow to the whole page in my a-master. So in my A master I click the page and turn off the drop shadow - I preview it, it's gone.
Now I show my home page it's fine, I preview it and it has a drop shadow on the page boundries. The drop shadow doesn't show in the a-master or home page in design mode. The A-page previews fine, the home page preview shows a drop shadow turned on - it's not.
Help!

Seems to be a bug - I made a new master page, copied and pasted my master content to the new page and applied the new master to the pages and the drop shadow is gone, (but still on the a-master).
Ughhh -

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