Data merge not removing blank lines

InDesign 7.0.4 (CS5)
Mac OS 10.7.2
I am merging product data for a simple price list. Some of the products have images, some do not. My .csv is formatted to include the image file name and I can create a 20 page, merged document with all of the products. However, for the products without images, there is a blank image placeholder for records without images. I want to remove the placeholder and allow the next product to "bump up" and not have so much white space.
Does this make sense? Any help is greatly appreciated. I have crawled the forums and seen a lot of discussion around this, but no solution yet. Thanks.
Chris

Peter,
Thank you. I was hoping you would respond. I see your posts all over the forum. Thanks again.
So, to summarize, there is no way to remove the empty frames in my merged document. (other than manually)
Is there another way to do this that I may be missing? Essentially, for the records without an image, I need to remove the white space in the image above (the second record is a good example).
Thanks again,
Chris

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