Creating DW templates - Repeating Optional Region?

Hello Again:
I know that it isn't always the best to pose abstract questions on forums, but I am wondering if anyone can tell if/how one can create an optional region within a repeating region of a DW template?
The specific conundrum I seem to face that if a region has two divs within it (one with and one without a textbox surrounding it, for example) and if the user of the template chooses to repeat the section, how can they delete the second div within the repeated region (deleting through the modify tempate option) without deleting all the previous instances of the div as well.
If there is a way to do this, I would appreciate some guidance.
Thanks in advance.
Steve Webster.

Yes, and first my apologies, as I could have provided the example first of all. If you go to http://socls.org/testing/immigration-refugee_law.html I can perhaps explain my objective better. On that page you see a series of text boxes one with a gradient background and a second with a only a outline in red. For the moment ignore the text boxes that are rendered side by side and assume that the 1st two horizontal text boxes are all that I want to repeat throughout the page.
I want to place the two of those full width text boxes within a repeating region (or turn them into a repeating region). However if the webmaster needs to add content but doesn't need a pair of text boxes, or otherwise gets to the end of her content sections and doesn't need a final red outlined box, then I would want that the last red outlined box to be optional, without however deleting previous instances. Sometimes content can't be organized so neatly as to finish with an even number of "content sets".
I think the bigger problem is, as I understand it, that you can't create two "divs" (in this case text boxes) and have each repeating independently, and allow each to be moved up and down as though they were passing through another text box/div that also constitutes a repeating region. The only way to have the pattern to repeat is to "pair" them as a single unit (Or perhaps I have misunderstood how the repeating action works ?!?) I have tried treating them as independent repeating regions and it doesn't seem to work in the manner I would like. If you tie them together in this way, then the only way to end with an uneven number of text boxes is to make one optional. But it seems that if you make the second in the pair optional, then by "turning it off", you end up turning all off.
At least that is how it seems to work.
You may be right that the design is too complicated to work as a template in this fashion.
Or, perhaps I am fundamentally mistaken on the architecture of the repeat concept.
Thanks again for your patience and persistence
Steve.

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