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Mike,

By default, FM locks the cross-references in the text inset so they
don't dynamically update (because in effect if they already do this,
they aren't static text insets anymore). You can "unlock" them with a
hack using the MIF files.

Once you've created the FM files with the text insets save these to
MIF. Using a text editor (or FM in text mode, hold down the Shift key
when you click the Open button in the Open Window) look for
<XRefLocked Yes> in the Xref blocks of your text insets and remove
this line. Now, when you open the MIF the regular way in FM, you'll
see that the cross-references in the inset point to the actual page
number that the target is on.

Your mileage may vary and hacking MIFs requires a bit of skill (in
knowing what to not remove).

To examine your MIF files in their structural context (to see where
the text insets and xrefs are, you can use Graham Wideman's fantastic
freebie MifBrowse utility available at
http://www.wideman-one.com/gw/tech/framemaker/mifbrowse.htm