Thank you Ashish,

Yes, set it up as in the help doc, but am using a custom controller to feed in a variable from the flow to the page and display some contact details on some flow pages.  If you can point me at any add'l info on error handling for flows in the controller, that would be much appreciated.

 The VF page:
<apex:page controller="quickCreateContactController">

    <flow:interview name="Quick_Create_Contact" interview="{!quickCreateFlow}" finishLocation="{!URLFOR('/003/o')}">
    <style type="text/css">
    input.btn[name="del"] {           
        display: none;
    }
    input.btn[name="clone"] {
        display: none;
    }
    input.btn[name="edit"] {
        display: none;
    }
    input.btn[name="share"] {
        display: none;
    }
    </style>
    <apex:detail subject="{!myId}" relatedList="false"/>
   
    </flow:interview>
   
</apex:page>

The controller:
public class quickCreateContactController {

    public String myNewId { get; set; }
    public Flow.Interview.Quick_Create_Contact quickCreateFlow { get; set; }
   
    public String getMyID() {
       
        if (quickCreateFlow == NULL)
            return '';
        else
            if (quickCreateFlow.vaShowThisContactId != NULL)
                return quickCreateFlow.vaShowThisContactId;
            else
                myNewId = quickCreateFlow.vaNewCreatedContactId;
                return myNewId;
   }
}