Trouble with Drop Shadow in "Web" Documents

Long ago I edited my <Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS3 Settings\New Document Profiles> to add my copyright metadata and a few other things. I could swear that the Drop Shadow effect worked in all of the document types at that time.<br /><br />Now for some reason if I create a "for Web" document (RGB), I can add the Drop Shadow effect, but it isn't visible as far as I can tell. All of the other document types (e.g. "for Print") allow me to create drop shadows.<br /><br />Anyone have a clue what's going on here?

Interesting. Drop shadow effect works in all versions I tested (not well as
a .gif but it was visible)
So I added copyright data (I don't know what a few other things are) and it
still works fine in all document types.
I would suggest restoring to the defaults, get the drop shadow to work
again, then ad one thing back to your profilse at a time and see which thing
breaks it.

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