Placing Word docs with custom style mapping

I am trying to place Word 2007 docs in InDesign CS3 using custom style mapping.
When I place the Word doc, InDesign creates a whole new set of styles with the correctly mapped new names but with the Word style definition. It records no name conflicts with the my already existing styles of the same names. Each of the new styles has the disc icon next to it, showing it was imported.
If I delete each of the styles I can replace it with my original InDesign style, but isn't the point of style mapping to eliminate that step?
Thanks.

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