Thanks. I don't have a header bar since I'm using a totally custom template, but your post helped me find it anyway. Basically you can't make a button drop its Persistence, but you can delete persistent buttons and recreated them differently. In case anyone cares, what I ended up doing was removing the 1 large thick persistent button and replacing it with 2 thinner text buttons on top of each other and the center top of most/all pages. And I made the lower of the 2 text buttons be the one set up as "Page" instead of "Normal" text. That way I get the normal text like "Oppo Bluray" up to and directly below is "Page 1 of 4" for instance.

Mission accomplished but man is it non-intuitive. Thanks for the help kgossen!