Pages Page Numbering not working correctly in iOS 5.01

Question

Whenever I set up Auto Numbering for a Page footer in Pages, it gives me high negative numbers instead of real page number or counts. I'll get -23829839282 or -2893282922 of -2973287372 instead of Page 2, or Page 2 of 4.
This works in the Desktop Pages, just not the iOS one. On my iPad, this makes using the page numbering function useless. Take note, this function was working before I upgraded from 4.3.3.

Answer 1

It sounds as if you are starting with a Left Hand Facing page (inside cove page?). Hence, the head scratching for ForwardSpread. I've only had a need to do this once, this week. UnCheck allow pages to Shuffle (counter-intuitive to me) and drag page icons if it siuts your view.
Facing pages is not necessary to accomplish your book document, but is more a visual assistance in layout and possibly items crossing the spine. If it helps, and I think not, you can turn it off in the Document Setup; be mindful of anything crossing the spine.
The MOVE work-around - if you indeed have Auto Numbering on, possibly the documents or the indb book filehave some corruption. You can create a new Book and load the existing documents to it relatively quickly; Moving pages from one doc to another would eliminate any document corruption. (You would need to define Auto Numbering in the new document(s))
Can you post a screen shot of Chapter2 or Chapter3 Page Numbering option?  (btw, you mentiond Chapter 2 was fine; I'm going to refer to the files as listed in your original post)
Message was edited by: Daniel Flavin - Turning off Facing Pages will lose any unique items on the Right Hand Master Page