Table of Contents #'s not accurate

I am writing a business plan and am beginning to write the executive summary. If anyone has written one before you would know that an Executive Summary is the first thing you read but the last thing you write. I created a table of contents that contained my chapter headings and the pages they started on. However, now that I went back and added a section (page) between my table of contents and the next chapter it won't change the page number. My executive summary starts on page 3 and in the table of contents it says that my other chapter also is on page 3 which is really on page 4. Hope this isn't too confusing. How do I get pages to put a 4 on the next chapter as the auto up-date isn't working as it should.

I have tried to re-generate my TOC to no avail. I erased the whole page but as soon as I insert a new TOC I get the same problem. Page numbers don't match up at all. I am getting so frustrated!! The up-date button doesn't do squat. Would it help to do a new table of contents in a new section of its own? I just don't know what to do. I even tried to change the page numbers myself but of course it won't let me select or delete any of the numbers. What a useless feature that has handcuffed my project.

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