Why my gradient mask at home renders smooth, but is clipped at work?

I created a number of gradient masks applied to images with a basic 100 to 0 black gradient, on my Mac at home. They look smooth in Illustrator, and rendered smooth both as a PDF and exported to a PNG.
Gradient Mask from my Mac at home:
But when I open the same illustrator document on my Mac at work the gradation of the mask is clipping. So instead of a smooth transition there's now a hard line.
Gradient Mask on my Mac at work:
This is the same file, opened on different Macs. Both identical versions of Illustrator CS6, identical color settings, identical color profiles.
The main differences are my Mac at home is a 2009 MacPro running OS 10.9, and my Mac at work is a 2008 MacPro running OS 10.8.
I've created and recreated gradient masks over and over again, and I cannot get a smooth transparency gradient mask at all on my Mac at work.
This presented a problem, as the client had to have last minute revisions when I was at work, and could not produce a smooth image, I was forced to deliver the final graphic with clipped gradient masks.

So deleting preferences didn't fix it. I even rasterized the gradient to see if an image mask would work better, that didn't work. Then I toggled "invert mask." I was suprised to see that once I inverted the mask (which reversed the gradient), the transparency was smooth from 0 to 100.
So I've figured out a work around for the problem, but it's still not resolved.
Invert gradient mask
Rotate gradient mask 180°
Adjust gradient mask break points to accomidate reversal
Here's the result:
Now if someone can explain to me why a gradient mask doesn't work in one direction, but it does when it's inverted.

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