Unfortunately not - I can leave it open and nothing ever loads (I have tried deleting the "Helper App" .plists etc). My help app will deliver results, but only after you have retyped your search paramaters (ie type your query in the "Pages Help" pulldown menu, which brings up the relevent topics, then click on the relevent topic, then it brings up the helper app which stays blank and you have to retype your search parameters directly into the Helper app (rather than being taken directly to it by clicking on the relevent search result in the Help pulldown menu built into Pages).
I should certainly read the manual, as I have found Pages relatively unintuitive (and I think it's the use of "sections" which I need to bone up on). When I tried creating a "new section" at the end of the first page (just above the footnote bar and after any text) it seems to delete the header on the next (second) page. If I copy the header from the 3rd page and re-enter it back onto on the second page, the header is actually also added to the title page, even though there I created the section break at the end of that page and I cannot delete that title page header without it also being deleted from the second page (which is in a different section).
This problem is absolutely doing my head in and is consistent regardless of whether I check "first page is different" or not ...
wait, unchecking "use previous header/footer" fixes the header appearing on the title page in another section, but I'm not sure why. I definitely need to read the manual, as I am finding this program much more frustrating than any other Apple program I have ever used ! Thanks for your help guys - it's much appreciated !!