Customised layout in iphoto

Hello everyone,
I am currently working on a rather large photo book in photo essay theme. For some pages I have chosen the custom layout, with one picture in the middle and no others around. The one in the middle is grey and the others are blue. I therefore understood, that I can unse just the one in the middle.
When I am now trying to buy the book, it does not allow it, because I have 'frames on one or more pages that do not contain photos'. Does anyone know a way around that?
Thanks

Look for a page with a layout similar to this:
It's the use photo as a page background that's the key to the problem.
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