Style Sheets: Retrofitting previously-numbered lists

Hello wonderful INDD community!
I have learned so much since my last visit here, and I want to say Thank you! You've helped me "up my game" with nested style sheets and grep!
Working on the same catalog project as I was discussing before, and I've run into this quandary:
This catalog has quite a lot of numbered lists, most of which were already numbered when I got them. I'm wanting to differentiate the numbers from the titles (which I've further differentiated from the descriptions using Nested Styles), but am having trouble deciding the best way to do it.
The reason I bring my woes here is because this group, I know, members here will help me find the BEST way to do it! Not just any ole way.
I sort of see two ways of approaching it:
Using GREP Styles to identify the item numbers and also to insert a second tab to allow me to right-align the numbers. The 1st part, I think I can do, the 2nd part kind of makes my head spin.
Converting these hand-typed numbered lists to INDD auto-numbered lists. The hurdle here, to me, is how to get rid of the debris of the hand-typed numbers in some easy automated way? This concept is kind of the reverse of INDD's "Convert Bullets and Numbering to Text" feature. A "Convert Text to Numbering" command.
Now, it's easy for me to believe that somebody here in this forum has a better idea. I just wanted to prove to you that I've done my homework. Hours of it, in fact.
Can peoples take a look at the attached image which attempts to illustrate what I'm after?
Thanks SO MUCH,
Mick

Howdy all--
Ok with some begrudgement, I have to say that technically this works.
It's kind of slow-going though..and it's not without anguish, which isn't an indictment of Jongware's implementation; probably more an indication of my ignorance.
What I'm doing is:
Highlighting a list
Styling it to a paragraph style that uses INDD's built in auto-numbering feature
Running Jongware's GREP pattern (thank you!) to get rid of the old hand-typed numbers
Placing the cursor in the middle of the first entry and right-clicking and selecting "Restart Numbering."
I know this isn't exactly what the Doctor ordered, Jongware, but I prefer this modified workflow because it kept me from needing to change the "find/change" box back and forth between two states (even if those two states were only the one format change). I was afraid that would start boggling my brain after doing it many dozens of times..
SO-- The thing that bugs me is step #4. I don't really understand the INDD behavior when it comes to auto-numbering. In the paragraph style I created  (see screen cap), if I set it to "start at 1" with a series of items highlighted, it numbers them all "1". If I say "continue from previous number," it refers to some bit of previous numbering in the story and picks up from there. Hence step #4.
Anybody care to shed some light on INDD's kind of odd auto-numbering tendencies (or my ignorance?) :-)
thanks again,
Mick

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