Keep track of styles in the find/change fields

Please at least make this an option.
I need the ability for InDesign to keep the track of paragraph,character & object styles that have changed names. Because when they do change names, I have to go through a mega list of GREP queries and "re-link" them in the change field.

If you really want, you can change it manually. Saved Queries can be found in your User data folder (which depends on your OS, your InDesign version, and your installation language -- CS4, Mac, is in Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 6.0/en_US/Find-Change Queries).
This small sample is from a saved query that finds a character style "Page Number" and changes to a paragraph style "Body Text Indent":
<FindFormatSettings>
<TextAttribute type="cstyle" value="Page Number">
</TextAttribute>
</FindFormatSettings>
<ReplaceFormatSettings>
<TextAttribute type="pstyle" value="Body Text Indent">
</TextAttribute>
-- I changed the 'pstyle/value' string to another paragraph style name, using TextEdit, and when I retrieved the query in InDesign it was there.

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