Experts,
For in case you come across this same issue, here is how I solved it:
I changed the Page Setup to Letter and then had the resulting first blank page issue. To solve this I suppressed the Report Header a.
For trouble shooting the 2nd issue (where a extra last page printed with just the header and footer) I made all the grouped sections another color and then determined which section were trying to print on that page. This colors were very useful. In the end it was because I aligned a section at the bottom, when I took that setting off, it did not print that extra last page.
Regards,
Marli