empty tables showing up...

I have modified my tracker module to not allow submissions from the 'page' node to show up by slightly changing some code, this...

$rows[] = array(
node_invoke($node->type, 'node_name'),
l($node->title, "node/$node->nid") .' '. (node_is_new($node->nid, $node->changed) ? theme('mark') : ''),
format_name($node)
);
}

and change it to:

if ($node->type != 'page') {
$rows[] = array(
node_invoke($node->type, 'node_name'),
l($node->title, "node/$node->nid") .' '. (node_is_new($node->nid, $node->changed) ? theme('mark') : ''),
format_name($node)
);
}
}

it works, but I noticed that while before, with the page node postings included, I had 4 pages of posts and without I should have only 2, 4 pages are still showing up...it's just that two of them are empty. Only the page numbers show up. So, for example, page 1 is almost full, pages 2 and 3 are empty but their respective page numbers still show up, and page 4 is full. How can I remove these empty tables without erasing the nodes themselves. I just don't want 'page' node info showing up in tracker or the empty table placeholders. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Larry