Ah. You didn't say TEXT box in your first post. That's a different story. Perhaps it's an OpenGL setting thing. You might try changing the settings and see if the behavior changes. I've never seen the tips display like that.

I haven't had any problems with shadows showing in LO2014. Did you update the style in SketchUp before updating the reference and rerendering the viewport in LO?

How about completing your profile with OS and SU versions?