Reply To: Updating Table of Contents issue

A Table of Contents story gets a special 'tag' from InDesign, so it knows what it can throw away when replacing the old one. It sounds like this got messed up somewhere.

Is your entire contents a story of its own? (I.e., not linked through with the rest of your document?)

If so, can you check if it goes back to work if you create a new table of contents, place it alongside your pages, then cut-n-paste the newly generated text over the old contents?