Indesign trouble printing a gradient shadow

Hello,
I'm fairly new to production in Indesign and I've been having a lot more trouble than I thought I would trying to get this particular graphic to print properly - I know it must be something really simple that I'm not doing.
So the attachment "testimage" is the original artwork in Illustrator - how it is supposed to look. I then put this file into Indesign and exported as a PDF and I got the attachment "tester" - everything looks fine, but no shadow. The shadow prints white. I have tried to do things like overprint, but that does not work, as well as distorts the appearance of the colors in the rest of the file. I have also tried to remake the graphic in various ways, such as use a drop shadow in Indesign instead of using the blur from Illustrator.
Perhaps could any of you please tell me what I am doing wrong? Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated!

In Acrobat 9 on Windows XP I see a shadow in both PDF files, but it is lower resolution in tester.pdf and looks like it has been heavily jpeg compressed.

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