Okay, I see that there is an option to force a new page on the Title band and the Summary band - and that makes sense.
My experience is that these attributes are ignored if the report is embedded.
Check me on this... I have a report that functions as a container for several embedded reports. I have placed the embedded reports in the Detail band of the container report. Is that the best place? The embedded reports are just reference BOs of the BO on which the container report is based. It seams to me that I'm using this exactly as intended.