Empty Page 1 On Short Reports?

I have a suite of several SSRS reports that differ essentially on the stored procedure called. All have very the same one-page header block and all have a footer. Those where a large number of pages are produced, page without fault when printed or converted to PDF. 

Two page reports often break down on printing, so that page 1 only has the header and a footer and all the detail lines are printed on page2 (together with the footer). However on the screen the report paged correctly.

I have checked all the obvious problems such as page dimensions exceeding that of the print medium. (A series of such problems was fixed earlier in development.)

I have observed this behaviour with SQL2005 SP1 and SP2 (i.e. SP2 did not provide any fix in this area). The host OS for development and production is Windows 2003 server. The tests were done by viewing in IE6 and the fault only became apparent when going to print preview, printing or in PDF production.

This has the appearance of a bug in SSRS hereby intermediate length reports are not handled correctly. It appears to happen when the amount of detail lines just fills page 2. As soon as the report has sufficient lines to be 3 pages long (page 1 is header plus some details lines plus footer, page 2 is full of detail lines plus footer and page 3 is remaining detail lines plus footer then the problem is no longer seen! Where the detail lines will all fit on page 1, then the problem is not seen.

I observe this variation in behaviour since I am able to switch between different sized datasets and thus switch between the different scenarios described above. I should also note that the reports are in landscape mode.