Duplicates of RAW files created - why??

I've suddenly had LR 2.0 create duplicates of my RAW files with the changes being applied to the copies. I've now got a cluttered directory. Why, and can this be fixed easily?

They're in the same folder and I only had one copy and worked on them for a day. I did an optimize and restart and noticed it afterward at some point. It's like LR decided to re-import the whole folder. All the photos with changes got assigned the xxx-1.nef prefix.

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