How to manually edit a "Table of Contents"

How do I set a table of contents to display "..." or align in a "nicer way" - either through manual editing or some advanced automatic vodoo.
Right now my TOC looks like this:
Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
And that's not a good thing.

Here are some links to older TOC question that might answer yours. There are quite a few threads about TOC if you do a search in the forum.
_http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11283337_
_http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10904870_

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Try making another, fresh book and then see if it obeys page numbering as you need there.

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You can't do that. This is what the Pages User Guide, downloadable from your Pages Help menu, says:
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apricotanna wrote:
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