Thanks for this post wrosun, since last week I was trying to solve this. This morning I finally figured out by chance that I should not use the advanced rendering plug in anymore. And this thread just confirm it. So it is useful to post that kind of issue and its solution.
Note: the reason I kept using the advanced rendering plug in, is that I could not see all the functions of it in the standard renderer dialog. So by force of habit I kept on using the plug in.