Drop Shadows and Transparency in Illustrator CS4

here's what's happening in Illustrator CS4.
Create a new document
In Attributes, check overprint fill
Add any text
Apply a drop shadow
Dave as Illustrator EPS - during save, set Overprint to "Preserve"
Once saved, you get the dreaded white box behind the drop shadow.
Is there any way to preserve transparency in Illustrator CS4 when applying a drop shadow?

First why are you using eps which does not support transparency except as one bit?
Why not as ai or pdf?
But you can try to use a tiff preview and select transparent there but Macintosh preview should make it so automatially.
here is the difference the top is the eps and the bottom .ai

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