Changing name of a clip in a keyword collection

When I find something interesting in the interview I am editing I will select it and give it a "soundbite" keyword. After a while I accumulated about 10 of them. So then I wanted to change their names so I know what they are but FCX changes the name on all of them to the same thing, so they all have the same name now, which is not very helpful.  I don't know know if this is the way it is supposed to behave or not but I think it is doing it because all these soundbits came from the same clip.  Is this right?  What's the best way label/name them so I can identify what they are?

DSLR is the event that's selected. The clip MVI_1681 has two selections, both in the test keyword collection. Here I can make a note to one selection and not the other. If I make the note in the keyword collection it happens as you describe. Not sure why that is. May be a bug.
It may help you to filter in the event browser for just the clips in the keyword collection you want. Press Cmd-F. Click + and choose keywords. Select just the keyword you want and only those clips will appear in the browser as they if you select the keyword collection.
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