Transparent background is white when placed in InDesign

AI SC5 v. 15.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.5.8
I've never encountered this problem before. I have very simple artwork in Illustrator and when viewed with transparency grid on it shows as black with no background colour.
In InDesign (CS5 v. 7.0.4)  it comes in with a white background to the art area despite having a frame with no fill.
I have re-created the artwork in Illustrator but the same thing happens - it is just type converted to outlines and expanded.
Any suggestions welcome as deadline is looming!
Thank you.

This is a bit odd this is what I found.
that if you have a gradient with white in the gradient and you add say a drop shadow to the art,you have to set the art to overprint in Illustrator.
The two placed art work from Illustrator with the white box are not set to overprint. One is an eps and the other is an ai file
the transparency is will work with eps and ai file fine except in this circumsttance.
Is this anything like your at?
Can you post a screenshot of your art the appearance and layer panels included?

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