Word 2003 Import - TOC Issue

I have a problem when importing docs into RoboHelp HTML X5.02
from Word 2003.
The TOC generates with the correct structure based on the TOC
from my document, but the generated Topics are not linked to the
TOC books/pages that have been created.
I am having to use the Topic > Properties > Find Topic
dialogue and paste the topic title into the Topic Search field to
manually find and match all the TOC Topics.
The problem seems to have started when I began importing docs
in languages other than English. Now it applies to English as well.
I have found that I can intermittently import docs
successfully if the doc content is all set to US English language,
and the doc is imported from the RoboHelp starter, rather than from
RoboHTML. Even so this doesn't seem to function consistently.
Does anyone have any ideas? I am generating large Projects in
4 languages, and matching all the Topics manually is becoming a
serious issue.

I forgot to mention the last column has some trailing spaces in the first row.

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