APEX limitation or am I missing something?

I'm not sure if my issue is a limitation of the APEX development environment or if there is another way to achieve my goal. The problem is this:
I've created a report that has 30 ITEMs (4 charts & 26 display texts) that are all fed by a SQL statement that is something along the lines of:
select * from table where column1 = :ITEM_A and column2 = :ITEM_B
I wrote the SQL statements for each ITEM using hidden items as variables so that I could change the dataset being analyzed without having to go through and change the SQL query for each item and chart. My thought was once I created the page exactly how I wanted it I could then make copies of the page and simply change the 2 references (i.e. Item variables) to the dataset and presto I would have 8 different reports representing the 8 datasets being studied.
The problem is that when I create the copy, it renames the page items rendering the 30 SQL statements useless. So now I'm faced with modifying 480 items across 16 pages (8 for viewing/ 8 for printing) and hoping that nothing in the future will change (not likely.)
Surely I'm not the only one who has run into this situation.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thank you very much for your time.

So, you want to copy your page but not copy the items or the item references? When we copy a page, we copy everything and try to update all references so that you actually have a full, standalone copy of that page. Even our copy region to a new page changes the item names for you. The only way to protect against this is to use application-level items. If you define your items at the application-level, you can copy your page and we will not change the references in reports/charts/etc. You could then create one new page that would accept input and set those application-level items.
Hope it helps -
-- Sharon

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