Sounds like these pages are just includes. Which can come in handy, for elements that are the same on every page, like headers and footers, or like a menu for the top and bottom of the pages. They are handy because if you need to change them, you just change one or two files and all the pages are changed. Since they are include type elements they are apart from the <html><head><meta>, ect parts of the page.
Using a header/footer file is good, but if it's just text, you sure dont want the same text on every page.
Unless I got it all wrong and not what your doing..
ronnie