Hmm, I thought Glass was one of the filters that works in the demo version of Eye Candy 4000.
Chocy, you don`t need EC4000 for this tut.
Do you have Eye Candy 3? If not, then you can download a copy here.
To glass the text, use the same bevel as my tutorial, and then apply the Eye Candy 3 glass settings from this Glass Text tutorial written by Kes.
The graininess is common when working with so many colors as this pattern. You could try adjusting the scale of the pattern, step #4. Do you remember what scale you used?
Does the Drip filter work with the demo version of Eye Candy 4000? How did you do your drips?