[IDCS2] Trouble applying object styles

I'm trying to apply an object style to a page item but I'm not having any success. I'm using IObjectStylesFacade::ApplyObjectStyleToUIDList to apply the style. The style UID is coming from the IStyleNameTable/IID_IOBJECTSTYLENAMETABLE in the doc workspace using FindByName, the UIDList argument contains a kMultiColumnItemBoss (I needed to navigate down from a kSplineItemBoss to get it... this seems legitimate from the layout chapter in the docs), and I'm getting the K2Vector<ClassID> of categories from IObjStylesAttrCategoriesList::GetApplyCategories (I've tried an empty list as well). ApplyObjectStyleToUIDList returns with kSuccess, but the page item always ends up with the style "None". I've tried a few other things (mostly regarding which page item is passed through the UIDList) but nothing has changed. Is there anything clearly wrong with my approach? I'm doing the same thing in CS3 and haven't had any problems, strangely.

It looks like I was attempting to apply the style to a kMultiColumnItemBoss. The target should be a kSplineItemBoss. I thought I was doing this originally, but I must've been mistaken since it's working now with that change.

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