CS3 Graphic styles frustration

Graphic styles in CS3;
I've defined several graphic styles and saved them in a library. Once imported into a new document or make a template doc with style already there.
Drawing lines in a layer: clicking the graphic style i want and draw a line, so far so good. Copy and paste that line ...
gives me a NEW graphic style-1 which happens to be the same as the graphic style in which the line was drawn???? Why???
By clicking in the Appearance menu on New art has basic appearance and doing the same as above won't give a new style-1 but....
Now the lines I draw, copy or paste has no graphic style at all?????
What I want is to draw ,copy and paste lines with a specific graphic style and illustrator to get hold of the style!
What am i doing wrong?

This bug or what ever it is did not seem to happen on Graphic Styles that had more attributes than one fill & one stroke. So when I made a Graphic Style & I only needed a stroke with no fill I would just add another empty fill so I would end up with a stroke & 2 empty fills. I do not know why but this problem did not seem to happen on any of these more complicated Styles. The problem did happen one time with a complex Style but I just recreated it & it has not happen since.
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There are really two types of Graphic Styles - Object level styles and Group level styles. There is no way to tell which style is which. So if you have an Object level Style and try to apply it to a group of objects or often a compound shape, you get each individual object having the style. If you have a Group level style and try to apply it to only an object, you often get nothing applied.
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There's no way to convert an Object level style to a Group level style or vice versa. The best (and pretty much only) way I've found to get around this is to apply the style to teh correct level then make a note of all the style settings, select the other level and recreate the style for that level.
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Well to be honest this is going to sound sarcastic but it is not intended. You make three lines the way you want it to apply to new shapes. the you select and drg it ot he brush panel and eselct to make it an pattern brush you have to read the help files in order to understand how to make a pattern brush.
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I really am baffled myself this was a drop shadow applied to a rectangel wit the parchment style applied to it on a brown background and the drop shadow was applied with the multiply as the mode.
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