Formatting a Second Page of Details - crystal-reports

This is a problem I've managed to come up with a semi-solution for in the past, but I thought someone else might know better.
I have a report in Crystal Reports 10 that is used as an order summary form for a production area. We have standard products that only have one item per code, and then we have kits. A kit will have one primary item, and a secondary item, both of which need their own page in this summary as they go to different areas.
To accomplish this I've taken the normal details area from the report and made a copy of each section. This second set of details sections only shows when a record contains a kit, and they force a new page before them. To the average observer this makes it appear as though there are two separate items on the order, when in reality there is only one.
In my page header there is a flag that needs to show only on these secondary pages. My problem is that there is no special attribute for these second pages that sets them apart from the first page of a record. To make this formatting happen I've created a somewhat effective formula, but it doesn't work in all possible configurations.
The formula is:
(PageNumber = 2
or ({%kit count} = 1 and (PageNumber - 1) = RecordNumber)
or ({%kit count} > 1 and (PageNumber -2) = RecordNumber)) then false
%kit count is just a formula that gets a total count for kit codes in the report.
Currently this works only on a few specific cases. I'm sure there's some kind of pattern in the available values that I could work with, but I'm just not seeing it.
I need to be able to trigger this formula on every second page on a kit. How can I accomplish that?
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It's quite hard to fully understand what you're trying to do without a discussion. Here is the solution to what I think you want to do with some made up data:
OrderNo Line Kit Rush
1 1 a 0
1 1 b 0
1 2 NULL 0
1 3 NULL 1
1 4 NULL 1
I create a group based on a formula (pretend OrderNo and Line are varchar so I don't have to cast :)
if {Rush} = 1 then
{OrderNo} & '-Rush'
else if isnull({Kit}) then
{OrderNo} & '-' & {Line}
else
{OrderNo} & '-' & {Line} & '-' & {Kit}
Then in the group header I place all of the stuff you currently have in your page header and enable Repeat Group Header on each Page.
Then finally put my detail in.

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i have to produce a report which contains two pages - 1. purchase order and 2. receiving note
report 1. has its own
header
detail
footer
report 2 has distincts header, detail and footer.
the only way i managed to make this happen was to use subreports but they only work in 1 level deep so having the addresses in subreports themselves i can't use this!
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NAF
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The SQL Expression
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