Gradient Problem on CS3

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Full colour print jobs, like a magazine, are printed using CMYK colours. All colours you see are created by blending halftones of four inks: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (CMYK). You can get a lot of colour that way, but if you're needs are specific, or if you only need one or two colours, Spot colours make more sense. Spot colours are colours that separate and print as that specific colour, using ink mixed by the printer (a company you hire, not a machine on your desk). Red can be a mix of Yellow and Magenta inks, or it can be printed using just red ink, like Pantone 485. When that happens you are using a spot colour.
If you are designing for screen, ALL your colours are RGB, even if you specify them as CMYK. NONE of your colours are spot colours because you are not printing colour separations. Any colour you use can be made into a swatch, That's a nice way to access the colour with a click instead of dialing in the values each time you use it. It also makes it easy to make global changes if your swatch is Global. Change the swatch and all uses of it change throughout the illustration.
Turning on the Spot option only affects how the colour is printed and tells Illustrator to blend it differently when using transparency (because of the different printing method). If you're not printing, or if the colour will be converted to CMYK process, don't call it a spot colour.
Since you are not working for print, you should not be using spot colours (but it's OK to use global swatches). You should also use RGB Document Color Mode.

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