Text Box in Header Won't Print

I'm putting together an "Oscars Ballot Form", so (naturally!) the header has:
"Oscar Night
Sunday, February 24, 2008
And the envelope, please..."
in the centre, a .jpg of the little golden guy himself on the right, and a textbox on the left which includes the text:
"<First Name> (This is a "merge field")
has achieved a colossal score of:
—————/24"
BUT!!! When I print this, the text box doesn't appear in the print-out. (The "Golden Guy" .jpg prints fine!) If I go to preview and save it as a .pdf file, the text-box shows up on screen, but still doesn't show up when I print the .pdf version!!!
If it's any help... Yes, I have selected the problematic text-box to cause "Wrap Left": That's the only way I know of to have it sit nicely beside the three-line text that's in the centre of the header.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. This NE*V*ER used to happen when I did the same ballots on Appleworks!!! (Yes, I know I could go back to Appleworks, but I want to see it all happen on Pages, which I did, after all, pay for!)
Much love, as always,
Jim (XXX)

Thank you for the response! This now gets curiouser and curiouser... The <First Name> is a recipient field in the text box, *IN the Header*, and now works fine. (It's merging with a group in Apple Address Book... friends who might be expected to watch the Academy Awards show if it actually takes place this year.) So where you say:
"I had a look to the English PDF User's Guide.
I understood it this way:
We may put a sender field in the header
but the recipient fields must be in the body of the document, not in headers"
this doesn't actually seem to be the case. Perhaps inserting text-boxes (with recipient fields) into headers is a work-around for this, although why on earth recipient fields wouldn't be allowed in headers I have NO idea!!! Possibly the issue has now been sorted out in "Pages" but the manual hasn't been up-dated to reflect that.
(I did, by the way, check out the trial version before purchase, but had no idea that this problem would occur. Alas, I have neither the skills nor the time to carry out a complete evaluation of Pages '08!)
Much love, as always,
Jim (XXX)

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