Picprint mis-position picture anchors

We use the following VB script to print Report sheets to Word doc. The problem is the pictures keeps anchoring further down (south of the Column break) on each page of the doc. We need to keep the picture consistently anchor at the same position on each page. Any ideas on how to do this?
The problem occurs on the following environment
Windows: 7
DIAdem: 11
MS Word: 2010
We believe that this problem does not occur using MS Word 2007.
for sheetNum = 1 to graphSheetCount            ' Cycle through all sheets
PrintFromPage = sheetNum
PrinttoPage   = sheetNum
Call GraphSheetNGet(sheetNum)
Call GraphSheetShow(GraphSheetName)
Call PicMaxPageCalc
For pageNum=1 to MaxYPage 'Printing all pages of the table
    CurrYPage = pageNum
    Dim myRange
    Const wdPasteMetafilePicture = 3
    'Insert a picture
    'Call WdEasyTextCenter(Word,"")     'Insert CRLF before picture
    Call PicPrint("WinClip")             'Copy graph device to clip board
    Set myRange = word.ActiveDocument.Range(word.ActiveDocument.Range.End-1, word.ActiveDocument.Range.End)
    myrange.PasteSpecial , , , ,wdPasteMetafilePicture
    if pageNum <> MaxYPage then
      call WdPageBreak(Word)
    end if
next
if sheetNum <> graphSheetCount then
   call WdPageBreak(Word)
end if
Next

Hi Larry,
VBScript and Word are both Microsoft products. There's is nothing in the metafile paste method that belongs to DIAdem. This is a question for Microsoft to answer, "How can I get your VBScript language to paste a picture file into your Word program using its ActiveX interface?".
If I knew the answer, I'd be happy to tell you, but I don't.,
Brad Turpin
DIAdem Product Support Engineer
National Instruments

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