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I suggest to move your post and ask on the parallel HP-UX forum because awk should really behave as expected from all people who answered you here.

so your HP-UX has a problematic awk?

my extra attempts would just be
awk -F\# '{ if( NR>1 ) { print $0 $2 FS}}' yourtextfile

or try to put the script inside a file:

{
if( NR>1 )
{
...

please tell us both awk and os version details

I can confirm too on a linux machine:
awk -F\# '{if(NR!=1)print $0 $2 FS}' yourTestFile

works correctly