>Thanks for everybody's help, but I think what this boils down to is this...
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>...that if I create one document from four different documents, all of which contain separate 'Page X of Y' footers, the final document will (when printed) replace the 'Y' in each of the four sections with the total page count of the document....and I'm trying to retain each separate 'Y' in each of the four sections.
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NumPages (the Y in your "Page X of Y") is always the total page count. Use the SectionPages field instead.

Tamar