Newcomer to FM Integration into Robohelp

Hello,
Can anyone recommend a class/book/resource that provides workflow and best practices specifically for FM integration into RH?
My company purchased TCS 2 last year and we have been successfully using most of the components. Now, I am tasked with finding a way of intrgrating our FM documents into Robohelp. I've done some work, but now I'm stuck.  I have taken a Robohelp class, purchased a couple of books, viewed online tutorials, and searched for answers all over. Unfotunately, the information i have found tends to be only task-specific and doesn't provide a complete set of instructions for performing this integration.
For example:
I have linked a FM project to Robohelp, performed some mappings, and compiled help. However, I'm having trouble figuring out how/when/where to create/modify mappings so that they apply to all my topics and so that they can be reused by other projects. My project has 10 chapters. Each chapter contains an introductory topic with a bulleted list of crossreference links to subsequent topics. I assigned the css file during compilation, but each of the introductory topics looks different (in some, the bullets are numbers, and in some the crosreferences are missing). This is just one example.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Hi Willam
This is just a possible heads up on the bit about saving the mapping. If the Frame <> RoboHelp linking works like the Word <> RoboHelp linking, it likely won't be possible to save the mapping items and re-use them for other Frame files. The same setup *APPEARS* to exist for Word, but each Word document is a different ball game and I understand that because of this, you have to create a new mapping file each time. I suspect Frame may work the same way.
Cheers... Rick
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