Problem with subforms

I did my first "intelligent" form last Thursday. Using test presentment it worked perfectly. Yesterday I did a couple changes (renamed some fields and removed a couple that won't be in my DAT file) and it is no longer working correctly.
This is a fairly simple form. It is a 2 page thing with a variable number of detail lines on the first page. I made the top part of page 1 a subform and currently have one of the fields as ^field so it gets laid down. So they could be repeated on an overflow page I made the column headings a subform. Then the detail line is a subform. The footer is a subform that gets layed down at page full time. Page 2 is a fixed format and to get it to print I made the whole page a subform that gets layed down at end of data time. I put some *no-print* text after the physical bottom of page 2 so that it would never fit if the number of detail lines happens to leave enough space.
Until I made my changes yesterday it worked perfectly. Page 1 was good. The overflow page was good. Page 2 was good. After my changes page 2 no longer goes on a separate piece of paper; it follows immediate after the last detail line on the same page. If it doesn't all fit on the page it is just truncated. This occurs in spite of my checking the radio button to "always force a new page with this subform".
What do I need to do to get this form working properly again?

I was thinking about doing a followup so thanks for the hint & the reminder.
I finally worked through the problem late last week.
Since it had originally worked before I changed some field names & such I thought that rebuilding the form from scratch might help, making the changes before I set up the subforms. It didn't.
I'm used to working with pure ^global fields with the occasional ^field definition so my original (and rebuilt) form had mostly global fields with a single field for each subform defined as ^field so that the subform would be called forth. That appears to have been my problem.
Once I made every field ^field and not ^global the form started working mostly correctly and the remaining quirks I can live with.
To begin with, every page started the text at the very top even though I had them defined with some blank space at the top. It appears that when I grouped the stuff as a subform that the white space just isn't there. I was able to get page 1 to print properly by setting the "always position in same vertical location" property but for the overflow page for the detail lines and pages 2 & 3 that can't be done because they then end up overprinting page 1. I was able to get pages 2 & 3 down a bit by defining a non-printing field above the text that was the actual subform. I can live with the higher than desired printing and the repeating of some text from the top of page 2 at the bottom of page three is undesired but isn't a show stopper since this page just gives the user some auxillary information regarding where the original was printed. (The original is printed off site via non-Central methods and this task was just to create a PDF version.)

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