CS3: Applying Object styles not always consistent

Hello,
I have a number of Object Styles, each of which have different Paragraph Styles called out. In turn, each of these Paragraph Styles calls out different fonts, font styles and sizes.
Most of the time I can click on a text frame and all the parameters in the Object style are applied--just as it is supposed to be.
But sometimes the font that the text is supposed to change to does not get applied. This seems to be inconsistent but there is probably an underlying order to it that I do not see.
So why would an Object style not apply the Paragraph style that is called for in the Object style options?
Thanks,
Tom

I now see the problem, though I do not know the solution.
If I open up a new document and create a text frame, the font is that old ugly but familiar Times-Roman 12 point.
But if I open up the template where I have many object, paragraph and character styles, one of each of these is already selected. I can either see this by opening the respective panels or above in the control panel. In fact, any text frame I create always has a top text inset.
So my Preferences in general are OK and I'd rather not dump them. The problem is that styles are already selected upon opening this one ID file. How do I turn that off?
In answer to a question above, I do not simply redo the old Quark file, now in ID. I have a series of styles that are just much easier to apply in a separate ID file, rather than reinventing them in the Quark-to-ID file.
Thanks for your questions and ideas. They helped me probe this deeper. Now I just need a solution to what I think is a simple problem (still eludes me tho!)
Tom

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