Super late to this party, but it seems that you will get this error if your input XML is UTF-16. I.e.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>Once I changed it to utf-8 this issue went away. Using Acrobat XI Pro.
Are you sure you used LiveCycle to author these forms? The "import" feature you describe is usually when an existing PDF/AcroForm is to be converted to a XML Form.
I'm afraid the show / hide approach may be your only other option. LiveCycle is template based, not page based. This is a key feature of the tool as it allows content to dynamically flow over multiple pages according to the content requirements.
Assuming that you only want the report to be printed, you can employ the solution in the blog below:Multiple Top Level Subforms Essentially you will be authoring two "forms", one for interactive (Acrobat) use, and another or printing.