Placing Named Ranges from Excel into InDesign

InDesign CS3 5.0.4, Excel 2003, Windows XP.
I have placed named ranges from Excel into InDesign and linked them. The Excel file consists of multiple worksheets. I go back now a few months later to update the files. I go to place a couple of new ranges from new worksheets and they don't show up under the correct sheet. ALL my named ranges now show up under the first worksheet only.
Anybody ever had this happen?
JAG

I've upgraded to CS5.5. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred placing named ranges into InDesign from Excel works fine. One time out of a hundred I still see all my named ranges on the first worksheet and none on the rest of the worksheets where I originally named them.
I save the Excel files as XLS.
Am I the only one in the universe having this problem?
Can I get an answer?
JAG

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<td> </td>
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