Detail band not honoring split values

[mgreider]

Greetings. I have a simple invoice style report that displays line items from an order. The description of the line item is dynamic, and the Text Field grows and shrinks accordingly. However, the problem I am having is that it's not honoring the detail band "Split Type" attribute. It really doesn't matter what the setting is, it always splits the description on the page break.

I'm doing with with iReport/JasperReports 4.0.1. In the iReport GUI I want to prevent splits so that a long description will jump to the next page. When I view the XML - all looks right:

<band height="70" splitType="Prevent">

But not getting the desired results. Any thoughts? I attached a image of the PDF where the line item is split across the pages (ignore the grey boxes that I overlayed to block out production data)

 

Cheers,

Mike