I think, that it is no defect, but works as it should. The field "Page Number"
refers to the page number witch is generated in accordance with page templates.
The  'page variable' is an individual, independend page counting, witch will
start with the field 'Set Page Variable' and can be shown with the field 'Show
Page Variable'. 

Why would I use a table of contents to point to a non-accurate page number???  A
user reading a document looks to the contents to reflect the proper number, the
TOC does not do this...  For example I have a multiple page document:

1) Title page (no page number)
2) Preamble   (roman numerals)
3) Table of contents (roman numerals) - by the way another bug, if I want the
TOC included and tell toc to include Table of Contents title, it wont because it
is an imbedded object
4) body of the paper which uses arabic numerals...

In this instance - page i-iii is not page 1-xxx; table of contents actually says
page one is two (because it counts the title page)

If your TOC doesn't show the logical page numbers, but the physical page
numbers, or if it shows the wrong style, than the use of page templates is
probably not correct. To change the page number or the style, you have to insert
a manual page break.
Please attach a document, so that others can understand what you have noticed.

reassigned to ES.

See
http://documentation.openoffice.org/user_faq/word_processing/002.html
and
http://documentation.openoffice.org/user_faq/word_processing/044.html

If you want your table of context to be included in the table of contents Choose
insert|Indexes and Tables -> Entry . Insert an entry on the page where your TOC
resides (this is easiest before creating the index)

duplicate.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 7065 ***

closing duplicate.