Blank first page

When I import an existing PDF (from a set of customer supplied PDFs) into the Designer I consistently get a blank first page that I am unable to get rid of. In the hierarchy view there is only one page showing. If I click on that page I go to the page with the controls on it (the second page). The page counter at the bottom shows 1/2 for the blank page and 2/2 for the page that the controls are on. I have tried dragging and cut/paste the controls to the top (blank) page. If I try to create a control on the blank page, it shows up on the Hierarchy tree under the the "topmostSubform level, between the Master Pages node and the Referenced Objects node - but the controls are invisible on the Body Pages design area.
It seems completely unrecognized in the environment, except by the page number counter.
This does not happen on all PDF's - I tried a similar one from another source and it imported fine.
So 2 questions -
1. What would be wrong with the customer PDF original that would cause this problem?
2. How do I get rid of the blank page?

I also had this problem after converting some existing pdfs into Livecycle Designer 7.1. I tried the same conversion in v7.0, and it didn't do this, so I suspect an undocumented feature may have crept into version 7.1. ;)
I found that the problem was that somehow the subform for the first ACTUAL page was longer than the bottom of the page. After re-adjusting the subform to something just under the bottom of the page, my extra page vanished and all was good again.
My clue was the fact that when I was on that page and clicked down towards the very bottom, the size in the bottom status line showed 8.5in X 11.014in.
Hopes this helps someone out there. I spent almost a whole day trying to figure it out. :( I looked through seemingly endless XML code and never saw it. It was probably there but I just didn't see it.
Regards,
Ray

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