I still find it strange that the footnote continuation and separator stories are created at the same time as the header/footer story ranges... and that those don't go away via the same process...
From talking to a few of the people at MS, I suspect that they simply forgot.

Agreed, learning IS the majority of the fun. Which is why, as you know, I try hard to encourage posters to actually learn and, at minimum, attempt to apply that in some demonstratable manner. They may get it wrong, but if there is sincere effort shown at trying to learn THAT makes me happy, and I am much much more willing to help further.

I do want to point out that Greg's statement "isolate" is in fact not quite accurate.

'Isolate section 2 header from section 1.
oDoc.Sections(2).Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).LinkToPrevious = False

Only Primary is "isolated". Only Primary is LinkToPrevious=False. FirstPage and OddEven of Section 2 are STILL Link(ed)ToPrevious to Section 1. You must explicitly unlink all six header/footer objects from the previous Section for a different Section to be truly "isolated".

I can not think of how many times I have had people get discombobulated by this.