Sadly, the multiple sections breaks are all because there are different fields pulling different values in the headers of each of those sections. So, they can't be the same.

In your example, I notice there are no longer different Odd and Even pages. The post before yours mentioned that my issue was because of that style choice. When I apply different Odd and Even pages to your sample, I get the empty page again.

So, I guess the deal is... if I am going to have different Odd and Even pages, I'm going to have to accept that the first page will always start on an Odd page.

If I don't want that, then I need to make the footers universal across the template (for example, numbers in the center) and I have to remove different Odd and Even pages.

THANK YOU ALL for the help today. While I don't have a fix that will allow me to keep the current template, I do have answers to what is possible and what isn't.

I truly appreciate the advice and samples!