The best way to do a moving shadow on text?

I was screwing around this afternoon and thought I'd try doing some shadow movement. It doesn't appear to be as easy as I expected. You can see my results here; http://gtwebconcepts.com/Aptera/Misc/Shadow.html
Basically, I typed in some text and put it Layer1
Copied it to Layer 2 and put a shadow filter on it.
I then hid the text so that only the shadow was showing and converted it to a movie clip.
I made a little light bulb and put it on Layer 3 and converted it to a movie clip.
Created a motion tweens on Layers 2 and 3.
The Shadow layer I free transformed to move away from the light.
This looked OK when I dragged across the time line, but the movie looks horrible. It's not aligned correctly and has this horrible pause in the middle of the tween (among other things).
There has got to be a better way of doing this. Anyone want to shed some light?

Well, I've spent a little time messing with the DropShadowFilter and I'm not really pleased with the results.
I've posted an example here: http://gtwebconcepts.com/Aptera/Misc/Shadow.html
The upper logo is using the DropShadowFilter in ActionScript, the lower with the tools in Flash. The lower is what I'm after. I need the shadows to be attached at the bottom and then move across in conjunction with a light. I'm not entirely sure that this is even possible, but this is what I'm after.
Have you ever noticed that it can be really hard to find specific info on things for Flash? I Googled DropShadowFilter and then searched for the applicable clone, constructor, propertyIsEnumerable, ect. Very little info out there, but better than my library. One out of three books had two pages that breifly discussed DropShadowFilter and that was with a static image drawn in ActionScript. (not much of a help!) If it wasn't for this forum, I'd be up a creek.

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