Drop Shadow turns into a glow when applying warp?

Hello,
I keep trying to apply the same drop shadow to warped text, but AI automatically makes the text glow instead of having the drop shadow. I have tried retyping the text, copying the text from another file, and expanding the appearance befor using the warp and to no avail-- it always turns my drop shadow into a glow.
whats going on?
K

Sounds like some of the bugs I am encountering too. Had a large file open, so I took the element out of the big file, pasted into another file, even tried restarting illustrator. What worked - sort of - was ungrouping and then trying to apply the effect. Good Luck!

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