Master pages working with the books panel

Hi everyone,
I'm starting a book which will have about 20 chapters in it. I'm using the books panel to work with it all but I'm not sure how to handle the master pages so that they'll work across all chapters within the books panel. I have a 2-page master spread set up with both of the pages having automatic numbering and the left hand spread with the name of the publication. The right hand spread will have the chapter name and this will be the only element that will change from chapter to chapter.
So I wondered if there was a way to set it up so that all the chapters were based on this master page. I'd then need to change each of the chapter headings for each chapter but then if I needed to make a change to the left master page, ie. with the publication name on it, is there a way to make this change on just one of the chapters and then all the other chapters would update to reflect the change.
Appreciate any advice.

Normally I would say make a second master page for the chapter start nad use that, then include the master pages when synchronizing the book, but there's another thread from yesterday where that is not working for the user, and I'm still trying to figure out why.
You can follow along at http://forums.adobe.com/message/2760081#2760081, or if you have a Mac you can help out by seeing if it works correctly for you.

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