Table of contents problem - order incorrect

Hi
I have a document that contains about 50 tables, often with several on a page. I have created a TOC list for these tables which works correctly throughout most of the document. However on a few of the pages the order of the generated TOC is incorrect (ie the entry for table 10 will appear before the entry for table 9) despite table 9 being before table 10 on the actual page. Incase the x position of the tables on the page has an influence I have set all the tables to have the same value.
If anybody has any ideas why this is happening I would be grateful to hear them.
Cheers
Brian

Have you found a solution to this?
If its appearing like my example below i have a possible solution...
A1. Title
A2. Title
A. Section Heading
A3. Title
A4. Title
I had that problem and found it was due to the position of the items on each page...
On a page with 2 colums A1 & A2 were in the left column, A3 & A4 in the right column... BUT my section heading was RIGHT aligned... not left... so the TOC uses the alignment of the headings for the order of items... so it saw A1 on the left up the top, A2 underneath, THEN my section heading top right, then A3 and A4 below it... make sense?
Basically if your heading or toc item isn't further left and above the next TOC on the page your refering to... it wont pick up the order correctly!
hope that makes sense

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