Header affixed to a text frame, repeared with autofill, Indesign CS3

Hi,
Can I affix a text-header to a text frame such that when I use autofill, the text frame will be repeated into the auto-added-pages with the header attached on its top, centered?
Can I do it on the Master Page?
Best regards,
Mickey

Hi Peter,
See my other message.
Basically I have 3 text sections on my page. On every page.
And I want the middle and bottom to have a header.
If I affix the headers on the master page they will indeed appear on every page AT THE SAME PLACE.
Then, assuming I was successfull in filling all 3 sections with text, I need to play with the frame size on every page so that the proper texts between the 3 sections are properly content-alligned.
(imagine that the top frames contain and article. The middle frames contains commentary on the article. The bottom frames contain word dictionary. And I do not want to use footnotes. So I have to align the page-section-contents by adjusting each frame size.)
When I do so, I wish the headers to move with the frames and remain in the same relative position to the frame.
I tried Anchored Objects affixed to the frame, but when the Anchored Object is a text frame...the silly thing attaches it to the OutPort of the frame. And it is "automatically threaded". Which is not what i want.
Maybe if the Anchored Object would be a Graphic Object it could work.
I was hoping there is a more direct way.
Best regards,
Mickey Cohen

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