Footnote numbering problem within single section

[jsswadley]

After a long battle with Word, I have my thesis formatted for final printing and binding. However, within Chapter 6 there are two footnotes on the first page, appropriately numbered 1 and 2, then on the next page the footnotes numbers begin again with 1 and continue correctly to the end of the chapter. There seem to be no section or page breaks. Has anyone encountered this particular difficulty? Continuous numbering is not a possibility for the thesis.