Gradient Feather / Transparency CS5

Dear Guys,
I have a great client I have made something for him in the past it looks like this:
As you see i have used gradient feather.
Now the client turned back to me after a while and I am trying to do the same effect on his bussines cards but I can't get it and Indesign gives me a pink/white gradient automaticly it doesnt go transparent.
Please could anyone help me out with this problem?
Anyone familair with this problem?
Kind Regards,
OG

This is so WEIRD!
In this document I changed the next thing:
Transparency Blend Space > Document CMYK to Document RGB now it does show the transparency but in the old file where it was all good its on CMYK.
Next thing if I want to print this do i get the transparency cause i'm affraid something will go wrong.. anyone.. did I do something good or isn't this the solution?

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