>To take the other approach, then, have you tried setting "constant band height" >for the detail band? I have experienced some wierd situations involving page >overflow in a detail band: in one case, a detail band overflowed to a second >page and the report dropped a detail line in the process! The fix was to set >"constant band height" on, which worked but had other repercussions. In that >particular case, I eventually abandoned the report writer and created the >report in code.

I should have said that - yeah - I tried that :) I don't want to write the report in code. This will happen very seldom (says user) so I may tell them to cope with it and move on..