TOC Style Confusion

Some inscrutible force is interfering with the formatting of entries in my table of contents. I have defined unique styles for both the entry and the page number. When I update the TOC, the entry assumes the style of the title of the TOC, rather than the defined entry style.
This is doubly strange, in that in my previous project, all aspects of the TOC behave quite normally.
Know this is difficult to diagnose at a far remove, but any ideas would be welcomed.

BTW, FYI, my smtp mail responses to emailed copies of forum responses are being rejected by my server; reason given: " <[email protected]> address unknown".
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