Thanks for the tips guys. Such an easy fix too, I quickly found the dialog box that contains these checkboxes. Turns out the 'page break before' box was not checked and the 'Keep with next' setting was the culprit. I unchecked it and the bullets work fine.

Paul, to clarify, I wasn't using a bullet list, I insert bullets using heading styles that are part of my multilevel list (please see my post above). Am I doing it using specific bullet Styles the way you suggested? Want to make sure I understand your comment - your results of a decade with no issues sounds good to me!