CS5 Trial bug with pagination?

Question

I have a book of about 250 pages that is composed of about 20 different files.
There is the title, copyright, TOC, chapter_01, Chapter_02, etc.
I want all pages automatically numbered starting from 1 to around 250.
This includes the title page (which does not actually show the page number),
the table of contents, etc. My intention is that reading the PDF in various readers
will have the page number agree with the 'absolute page number' in the reader
'current page number' box.
I want InDesign CS5 to automatically do the numbering for me and update the numbering
for each file (i.e. document).
I have the footer all set up (no problem there). I do NOT want 'section' numbering.
[1] The book page numbering options (with no documents selected in the Book pallet) is;
- Continue on Next page
- Insert Blank Page
- Automatically update page and section numbers
[2] Each document (file) is set up as;
- The 'Start Section' is grayed out and checked (I think this is a the bug)
- Automatic page numbering is checked
- The start page is set at 1 (this should not matter)
- Automatic chapter numbering is checked
[3] General Preferences (with no book or documents open)
- General page number = absolute numbering
What happens is that each file starts out with its own numbering system
(starting at one) which is not what I want.
I think the 'grayed out' check box for 'Start Section' (see [2] above) is a bug.
I DO NOT WANT TO START A SECTION. I want to continue paging from
the previous document.
Is there something simple I am missing?

Answer 1

I figured it out.
You have to set the General Preferences > Page Numbering
to
Section Numbering.
If you do not do this then the document setting seem to be 'reset'
to a non-automated way of numbering - even if you set up your
doucments to use 'automatic numbering'.