Just in case anyone else ever tries to do this, there's a simple fix...
If you know how many pages you're going to have of the "front" of the report, just do what I did:
1. create a temporary table. Data inside it is irrelevent. Single field, call it whatever you want.
2. in the form that...
I have a government standard two page report, but depending upon number of records, it could be as many as 12 pages. On the first page, there is a fairly elaborate header with some dynamic data, pulled from multiple resources. A single line (form number) for a footer.
I have a temporary table...