diff --git a/js/jquery.mobile.listview.js b/js/jquery.mobile.listview.js
index dbaa3ad1..ee94e12e 100644
--- a/js/jquery.mobile.listview.js
+++ b/js/jquery.mobile.listview.js
@@ -269,8 +269,12 @@ $.widget( "mobile.listview", $.mobile.widget, {
 
 		}).listview();
 
-		//on pagehide, remove any nested pages along with the parent page, as long as they aren't active
-		if( hasSubPages && parentPage.data("page").options.domCache === false ){
+		// on pagehide, remove any nested pages along with the parent page, as long as they aren't active
+		// and aren't embedded
+		if( hasSubPages &&
+			parentPage.is( "jqmData(external-page='true')" ) &&
+			parentPage.data("page").options.domCache === false ) {
+
 			var newRemove = function( e, ui ){
 				var nextPage = ui.nextPage, npURL;
 
diff --git a/js/jquery.mobile.navigation.js b/js/jquery.mobile.navigation.js
index 138d4d31..482559d9 100755
--- a/js/jquery.mobile.navigation.js
+++ b/js/jquery.mobile.navigation.js
@@ -784,8 +784,12 @@
 					}
 
 					//append to page and enhance
+					// TODO taging a page with external to make sure that embedded pages aren't removed
+					//      by the various page handling code is bad. Having page handling code in many
+					//      places is bad. Solutions post 1.0
 					page
 						.attr( "data-" + $.mobile.ns + "url", path.convertUrlToDataUrl( fileUrl ) )
+						.attr( "data-" + $.mobile.ns + "external-page", true )
 						.appendTo( settings.pageContainer );
 
 					// wait for page creation to leverage options defined on widget