Reply To: Can't get page numbering to start at 1 on actual page 7

You are definitely missing something or it's some bug i don't know, I mean you have the solution described above.

Check your pages panel and look for black triangle above 7th page (it should be there if your section is starting from there), and section start should be checked and start page numbering should be set to 1. When you do that it's better to change style to Roman numerals for first six pages so you don't have two pages with number 3 for example.

Also don't change section numbering in Preferences, because you have sections in document, right

One more thing, maybe your master page isn't set correctly. Did you create text box and insert special character (current page number) on both pages (if you have facing pages) in master spread ?