Rich,
What about replacing pgNewItems and pgChanges with containers inside a page of the pageframe, then according to the condition you change the caption of the page and show only the appropriate container, making the other one invisible, that would avoid fudging with the pageframe and hopefully solves question 2 too.
Hugo
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