Color label disappears

I put a color label (In Finder, File-->color label) on a document or folder but it stays only a few hours (I think that at midnight it disappears) Why ? (remind me of Cinderella)
All the other colors I made in the past stays.
There's probably no connection but the only change I made recently was upgrading Safari from 3.2.1 to 4.0 and after 24h or so I asked an exorcist to take me out of there ASAP, so he killed 4.0 and I went to Safari 3.1.1
Probably a coincidence.

I am confused.
This problem belongs to more people than just to me.
I thought that, if there were no solutions, after a reasonable time, someone from Apple will reply and try to solve the problem.
That has not happened.
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