Refering to Styles Groups in XML

Hi,
I am importing XML for my document. I have loaded a Style file and a number of styles are in Groups. I can not seem to refer to these in the xml. The group is Page and the style under there is Page Head. On the majority of the below, when I load the xml I get another entry in the styles refering to the below (eg, Page\:Page Head). I have tried the below
<col1 aid5:cellstyle="Page Head" aid:pstyle="Page\:Page Head">
<col1 aid5:cellstyle="Page Head" aid:pstyle="Page/:Page Head">
<col1 aid5:cellstyle="Page Head" aid:pstyle="Page:Page Head">
<col1 aid5:cellstyle="Page Head" aid:pstyle="Page Head (Page)">
I even changed the heading and exported the XML file to see what the exported xml looks like and I get the following, which again, has no reference to the group:
<col1 aid5:cellstyle="Page Head" aid5:pstyle="Page Head" aid5:paragraphstyle="Page Head" aid:pstyle="Page Head" aid:table="cell" aid:crows="1" aid:ccols="1" aid:ccolwidth="330.32068718682893">
Can anyone please tell me what I should use. I am on CS3.
Thanks.

Hi,
This is a big issue for us and it would be difficult to organise all our styles in a flat manner. Just wondering if anyone can help or offer another method which I could use. Thanks in advance.

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