I hate it when that happens. It's a case of a feature that
can turn into a nightmare.
This is what is going on: when you create a new index link,
it copies the topic title from the properties to be the "visible"
topic title in the index results. You see it in the little gray
box, and on the Index tab in the little Topics For: pane at the
bottom of the list. But that's a copy of the title, not a link, so
it doesn't respond when you change the topic title in the
properties. The reason for it (I think) is to make it editable.
You are going to have to fix these by hand. There are two
ways (in RH6):
1) Open the Index tab. Select the first index term. Look at
the Topics For: pane and fix any ugly ones (just click and wait a
second, like renaming a file in Windows Explorer). Then select the
next index term.
2) Make a copy of your <projectname>.hhk file somewhere
safe. With the project not open in RoboHelp, open the .hhk file in
Notepad. Each topic link in the file has a section that contains
object type="text/sitemap". This section, in turn, has two kinds of
param lines: param name = "Local" (DON'T TOUCH IT - that's the
link) and param name = Name (edit the ugly ones - these are
visible). Now open the project in RoboHelp, generate it, and pray
you didn't break anything.
Good luck!
Elisa