Sorry - i missed your advice in your first reply. I did as you said and changed the bottom margin to 0 and added position absolute. This didn't adversely affect any of the other pages but it DID re-position the footer content to be inside rather than outside the gray bar as it was before. However not sure that on that one page i can use absolute position because now the gray footer bar is forced to be in exactly the same position as it is on the other pages (which is why it's overlapping the posts) and the blog page with multiple posts will become longer so the footer has to be pushed down as the page grows.
Maybe i'll just eliminate the footer on that page - if i can.
Any other suggestions are so appreciated.