navigation collection won't allow update to panel title

I've created a custom navigation collection and the banner does not show the page title of the current page within the selected component.  Instead the page title in the banner shows the label of the navigation collection. If accessing the component directly through navigator the page title in the banner shows the page within the component properly.  I've tried using the Banner class, SetPageTitle method to no avail.

Edit:

I've determined that my custom navigation collection evaluates the IsAGRequest() function as true.  I'm not sure why this is happening as I'm not intending the nav collection to be an activity guide, but from what I'm reading the Banner class methods do not work on activity guides.