Publishing text as image problems

I read this nifty article by apple on how to "trick" iWeb into publishing certain text boxes as images. To do so, just give the text box a shadow and make it opacity like 5%. In my case, I have a few fonts on my site that aren't noticed by all computers so I need to publish those boxes as an image. I did that trick, and it worked as to publish as a text box, however when viewing on a PC via Internet Explorer, all of those text boxes that I did that trick for now have a so called "shadow", but they are all solid (100% opacity). No matter what I change the opacity or offset values to in iWeb I get the same result. Any suggestions?
To see what I am talking about view http://www.alotusbirth.com on a PC with internet explorer (I am assuming all PC's because it did it on my home PC and work PC, but haven't tried anywhere else though). The home pages' title was not published as a text, but all other pages' titles were. (Everything is displayed fine on a mac/safari)

One way around that is to not use a drop shadow but just select and copy the text box. Next open Preview and select File->New from Clipboard. In the window go to the Sidebar pane and drag the icon into iWeb and replace the text box with new image. That creates an image of the text. More about the process is described in Old Toad's Tutorial #7 - Converting Photos w/Frames, Drop Shadows and/or Reflections into a Single JPG Image.
The process works with photos that you've added frames or drop shadows or reflections to.
For more tips on iWeb vs IE see Roddy's How to get your iWeb Site to load in Internet Explorer page in his iWeb for Musicians site.
OT
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