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Yes, Cherry Drops are hom DP
It looks like a whopping total of three Cherry Drops have had hom Pearl added (put Cherry Drop in the tattoo field and set C and Ccr to "must not have") and all three (one's deceased) have other stuff too and therefore wouldn't be great examples. But here is a homozygous pearl wild bay with DP in her pedigree on both sides. She's also hom sooty, it's not a perfect example, but my guess would be that he'd look something like this

KT3 E5 Rock7030579 Sa

As is, your stallion will not throw liver chestnuts at all because he's EE. All of his foals will get that dominant black base. And since he doesn't have sooty the foals would need both a sooty and a DP from their dams in order to be liver even if they were red based. If you want him to throw livers then I'd suggest you make him hom sooty and either Ee (black based but carrying red) or ee (red based himself). If you go with ee and add hom sooty he'll become a black liver.

As far as pearl and pearl vs. DP, a single copy of pearl does lighten livers somewhat, as we have learned through lab experimentation, but it doesn't make them pearl. As mentioned, they'd need a second pearl or a cream.
Here's a black liver with hom pearl, though, for reference (hom DP, sooty and pearl on an ee horse) -

TH1 Jack the Pumpkin King

And a chocolate palomino pearl (his daughter, ee, hom sooty, het pearl and cream, at least het DP, possibly hom DP)

TH2B Luthien

Alright, hope that answers some questions for ya!

I love bay pearls! This one is regular bay, not wild bay, but she's so pretty that I'll take any excuse to show her off

Guinevere