Conflicting swatch colors

Help! I have a question about colors. I'm working on a number of files in which one of the colors have technically changed, however the name of the color has to stay the same. I open a previous file, with the old color (a spot color), and open up a new swatch palette, with the new color (also a spot). Now, the old color and the new color are named the same, so when I click the element that needs to change, and click the new color, nothing happens, because it sees that it "already has that color in the (standard) swatch palette". I see two ways around this, but both seem less than efficient: 1 - I could rename the new/replacement color, so that the program sees it as different. Unfortunately, for me, this is not an option, as it's a company color and the naming convention needs to remain the same. 2 - I could open up the original color in the swatch palette and manually remix it to the new/replacement color, but this seems rather tedious. Does anyone have any suggestions, or know of a way around this issue? Thanks in advance!
Ben

Definitely works on a Mac perhaps it is just a Mac feature and it doesn't have to be a spot color or global. But if it is a global or spot color that is good because the art will update as well.
here is a video
http://www.wadezimmerman.com/videos/SwapSwatches.mov

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