Autoatic Figure Numbering

Hello,
We are using InDesign CS3 for a large document. We have heading styles 1-5 defined in in the paragraph styles, they are done as a list called "Headings" so that you get
A. Heading 1
A.1 Heading 2
A.1.1 Heading 3
A.1.1.1 Heading 4
A.1.1.1.1 Heading 5
We are trying to have our figure numbering done automatically and we have a figure style defined similar to the above. It is a list that relies on Headings list. The figure is set to level 6 in the list
We want the figure numbers to follow the Heading 2 part so that the figure numbers would look like
Figure A.1-2 where the "-2" designates it as the second figure in the A.1 section.
The problem is that 90% of the time it works, but it seems that sometimes, if you are in an H3,4,5 section, then the figure number starts back over at 1 instead of continuing. If we adjust the level from 6 to a lower number, then the headings start to skip numbers that the figures have.

Ok, let me clear up my original message...
H1-H5 are all in the same list (Section Headings) and are Levels 1-5 respectively. We want the figure numbers to build off of H2 (We always have at least 2 levels)
I have two more levels than the H1-H5, they are Figure Number and Table Number. I have them based off of the "Section Headings" list. I have tried them both at Level 6 or having one at level 6 and one at level 7.
I guess my question for pixelstuff is "how did you assign them to a different list?" Obviously 1. Heading is the top of a list, but how can you have two different lists dependent upon it, that puts it in two lists, correct?

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