Adding Bookmark messes up all bookmarks

I am putting translator's endnotes in the text block of a minimally modified 'Contemporary-Section Text' layout section. I created five bookmarks (named Proleg-T.01, Proleg-T.02,…) in that section with the idea of hyperlinking to them from a footnote reference in the main text sections. When I add a bookmark in any section other than this one, all bookmarks stop working --when I click on any of the previously made bookmarks in Inspector the highlight doesn't even 'hold', and goes back to whatever was highlighted before (the newly created bookmark, the creation of which destroyed everything, and which doesn't work either).
This happens when editing both in landscape and portrait, and when the new bookmark is created in the textblock of any other section using any layout. I can keep adding new working bookmarks in the same 'endnotes' section. Any idea what may be going on?
Thanks very much.

Oh well after 1 hour + of restoring to backups and trying stuff I realise that clicking on the Inspector panel list will not navigate to a bookmark in a different section --one needs to manually go to the destination section, and at that point clicking on the list will work. So it is not that the bookmarks are messed up, but that the Bookmarks list in Inspector works in a rather unexpected way.

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