Layout Problems When Exporting to ePub

Hi,
When exporting my document to ePub, I always receive the following errors:
Export Warning - Some style settings, including multiple columns, table styles, and character formatting, aren’t supported. Your document might look different.
Export Warning - Headers and footers aren’t supported and were removed.
First of all, how can I see these on the document? When I look at pages, the layout seems perfect. Please note that I used Baskerville as the font everywhere, didnt use any multiple columns or tables. There are no footers but only some headers.
The main problem I have is with the layout. Some chapters need to start on a new page but instead iBooks puts it at the end of the last page. Please check the picture below as what I mean.
There also is a blank page on the ibooks which I dont know why. It is a single page and it is blank. There are no blank pages on my pages doc...
Also on TOC, I dont see anything like ''Title Page'' on pages but when I export it to ibooks, on top there is this ''title page'' thing. My book will not be in English so is there any way to delete it from TOC?
Thank you
Note: I use Pages v4.3

Most of us that usually answer questions in this forum don't create ePubs and will have problem helping you. If you don't get an answer here try this forum Creating ePubs. I hope it will help.

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