CS5: TOC Question

I'm trying to set up my table of contents for a book document. Below is a screenshot of the TOC as it is right now.
The TOC looks fine, I guess, but the elements are not in order. The three headings (System Introduction, Overview, and Chapter 1) are not in the same order as on the page. I want the Chapter 1 heading to come before System Introduction. It does so on the Chapter cover pages:
Chapter 1 is a specific paragraph style in a text frame by itself. System Introduction and all the other following text share a text frame. System Introduction is a specific paragraph style. Meanwhile, Overview shares its style with that of a specific heading (the blue elements on the TOC image), since I want all of those elements to appear in the same style and positioning on the TOC.
Here is what my TOC settings look like:
I have the Chapter # style (the style applied to Chapter 1 in the above screenshot) as the first item in the TOC. I want it to share the positioning and style of the Chapter Title, but I don't want a page number for it. All other styles have a page number position assigned with a leader, and they are positioned at the correct level. I just don't understand why the Chapter # style is appearing in such an odd place in the TOC.

Well, the TOC harvests character styles for inclusion in a really regular, top-to-bottom, left-to-right order. It's not looking for styles as it does so, but for frames. If the blue guides show where the Chapter 1 frame begins and ends, and if the rest of the text is in a frame that takes up the entire page within the margins, then of course the TOC is finding the main-body-text frame before it finds the Chapter 1 frame, becuse the main body text frame is closer to the top left than the Chapter 1 frame.

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