Odd GREP results (CS4 Mac, CS3 PC)

Question

Hi all
I'm using a series of expressions strung together in a JavaScript to format the copy supplied for a Contents page. The copy is supplied as basically a list separated by returns, eg;
Jeremy Smith
Made Up Name, National Gallery, London
Brian Smith
Blah blah blah, I like cheese
and I am using GREP to format it as follows;
    (tab)    Jeremy Smith          (tab)         Made Up Name, National Gallery, London         (tab)              00
    (tab)    Brian Smith             (tab)         Blah blah blah, I like cheese                           (tab)               00 
My expressions recognise the first line (the name) and the article title and store them as "found text" and then spit them out again with the returns deleted and replaced with the appropriate tabs;
Find what: ([\w [:punct:]]+)(\r)([\w [:punct:]]+)(\r)
Change to: \t$1\t$3\t00  (00 being the placeholder page number)
This does work but what happens is the found text is not output as it is found - the italic is not correct. The above example comes out as;
    Jeremy Smith    Made Up Name, National Gallery, London    00                   (incorrectly formatted letter in red)
    Brian Smith    Blah blah blah, I like cheese    00
The above expression is one of many I run on this page but I have extracted this out and tested it on its own and it is this expression that is causing the problem - I can't see what the hell is happening! These are other examples of where it happens but hopefully the above example will be enough to give the resident GREP experts enough to go on if they are kind enough to give it a look.
Any suggestions appreciated.
thanks,
Iain

Answer 1

Eugene - you're right, making all the punctuation italic first gets round the problem. But it has made the last letter before the punctuation in a roman phrase italic. I don't think I can use that method in our job anyway as it can't all be changed back to the same style (bold or italic etc). The formatting of the page is such that punctuation could appear in either bold or bold italic so a general "make all punctuation italic and then back to roman again" wouldn't do it.
I suppose I could change all the punctuation following an italic character to italic and red and then do my main GREP and then put all the red punctuation back to roman (and black) - which means when we apply the paragraph style it shoudl all work out. I'll give that a try after lunch.