Autoflow Text makes boxes ON TOP of master linked boxes (IDCS3)

Using CS 3 version 5.0.4 on G5 Mac with OS 10.4.11
Adobe's instructions say:
"Flow text automatically
" With the loaded text icon displayed, hold down Shift as you do one of the following:
Click the loaded text icon in a column to create a frame the width of that column. InDesign creates new text frames and new document pages until all text is added to the document.
Click inside a text frame that is based on a master text frame. The text autoflows into the document page frame and generates new pages as needed, using the master frame’s attributes."
I am trying to import text into a book. I have formatted a master page spread and applied it to one document page. When I follow option 2 above ID is creating the requisite number of pages, it is creating full-page text boxes ON TOP of the text boxes from the Master page. It is completely ignoring the text frames based on the Master page.
I have sent my document and text to a friend who is working in ID CS 4. When he does the same thing it imports into the formatted frames.
How can I get this to work properly?
John

Michael,
It should be left to right. I must be dyslexic late at night. Sorry.
The two masters is one facing pages master for the bulk of the book, then a second master for chapter openers with a dropped frame, chapter title frame, or some other "special" condition that you don't want appearing in general. I may have misunderstood what the OP meant by "different."
The requirement for two pages is only if they are based on different masters (and after some playing, apparently perhaps only if the masters aren't based on one another in the order they are used). Here's the scenario:
Page 1 is a chapter opener with a dropped frame, and the rest of the pages need to be full height, so you create two master spreads, one for the opener and one for the main pages. The chapter opener master (call it A) can be either a single or two-page master, and can be configured with different height frames on either side if you wish. Normally one would assign Master A to page 1, then the second master (call it B) to pages 2 through the end of the chapter, so you add two pages to the document, the first based on A, and the second based on B.
If you try to autoflow starting on page one one of two things will happen, depending on the relationship between the masters (this is based on testing in CS4, but I have no reason to think it would be different in CS3): If there is no relationship between the masters, or if A is based on B (that is the based on relationship is not in the same order that the pages appear in the document), autoflow will jump over page 2 (and any following pages based on any master not based on A) and create new pages based on A to place the text that doesn't fit on page 1.
If Master B is is based on A, then autoflow will use the pages based on it, but will switch back to making pages based on master A when it adds new pages. If A is based on B.
If you place text only into page 1 (either by not holding a modifier key or holding the Alt [Opt] key for semi-autoflow to keep the cursor loaded), then move to page 2 and hold the shift key to autoflow starting on that page, ID will add new pages based on the master used on page 2.
On the other hand, if you DON"T use master text frames, ID will autoflow through all available pages, using the margin and column guides, and then add new pages based on the master for page 1(and this is different from what I had remembered -- I thought it would add pages based on the last page in the document), so if you don't have enough pages in the doc already, and page 1 is different from the following page, you still want to start the autoflow on page 2.
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