Why are my reflections brighter in After Effects CS6?

My first project in After Effects CS6 and the new Ray Tracer Renderer has taken a turn for the worse.
I brought in AI text and converted it to Shape Layers. Extruded it and placed it in front of a "wall" that set to receive Reflections.
You can clearly see in the reflection that the sides of the letters are waay brighter than they should be and really aren't reflecting properly.
Anyone have any clue what I'm doing wrong?

I have one ambient light and one point light in front of the text.
I turned the shadows off so that the reflections could be seen better for this example.
I'll add more lights and see if it does a better job, just out of curiosity. I still need to use my current set up though.
I did find out something about ... I forgot what they called it. Adobe's "power saver" something or other. When you turn on reflections things automatically get darker and you need to boost your lights.
Still, though, if that's the cause then I would think the reflections in the wall would be darkened by the same amount.

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