Ok; I've just started playing with the page turn effects, and I think I see what your problem is... sorry I've not been getting the point!
You're not losing your title in the transition, because the transition truly isn't affecting the title... What the transition IS doing, however, is causing the entire screen of that layer to fold, including the alpha channel, rather than just the image itself (your image is scaled smaller than the frame size).
While you CAN do this effect the way you want in Premiere, it will require each image being on it's own sequence, with the sequence sized EXACTLY to the dimensions of the image... To acheive that, you'd drag the image to the new item icon, it will create a sequence sized properly for that image. Apply your transition (and an opacity fade as well if you want a fade to accompany the page turn), and then move on to your next image in the next sequence. Then, when you're ready to put the whole thing together, create your master sequence with your titles, etc. where you create your image animation (flying, etc.) and then instead of dropping the images on this sequence, you'll drop the sequences that contain the images. That should give you the result you're looking for.
It will get pretty complicated, but it may still be easier/faster than going through AE, especially if you're not fluent in AE...
