How to make numbered chapter titles and paragraph headers in iWork Pages 09?

How to make numbered chapter titles and paragraph headers in iWork Pages 09? For most of my document writing I use iWork Pages (from iWork '09), and it's usually fine for me. I don't miss Microsoft Word, except for one simple feature: the ability to number chapter titles and paragraph headers for easy reference in the contents of the document and for cross references.
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"I've always used the numbered style, it's a little quirky, especially when it comes to the table of contents, but it does ultimately work. What documents are you ultimately creating that don't obey the numbering rules?

To do a 2 tier numbering scheme:

Set the ""Heading 1"" style to ""Numbered List""; right click on Heading 1 to save the style.
Set the ""heading 2"" style to ""Numbered List""
Open the inspector palette, choose ""text inspector"" and then the ""list"" tab.
Change ""numbers"" to ""tiered numbers""
Select ""continue from previous""

It is not perfect and requires more setup than I'd like, but I have successfully formatted 100+ page documents using this. The net result should be something like this:"