Duplicating a Sequence renames all clips

All of a sudden, after months of stable operations, when I duplicate a sequence, all the clips in the timeline get their names changed to the name of the new sequence. Every time I rename the sequence, the clips get renamed again to match the sequence name.
Also, Find Frame (f) and shift-f don't work. Shift-f highlights the new sequence in the Bin.
These don't fix it:
trashing prefs
relaunching the app
rebooting the computer
repairing permissions
running Disk Warrior
I suppose re-installing the app is next, but a friend just told me that he got the same thing, and reinstalling didn't fix it for him.
Any ideas?

I found a half-*** workaround: Create new sequence. Copy all from old sequence. Paste into new sequence. This solved the problem of clip renaming on V2, but not V1 .
Also, when I changed the name from Untitled Sequence to >whatever<, it stealthily changed it's name - several minutes later - to the same as the original sequence that the footage was copied from.
I changed the name again, which stuck for a few minutes, but then later, it changed it's name back to the original sequence again!
This is probably the oddest bug I've yet encountered in FCP. I opened other projects, and am not getting the same behavior. So, I'm concluding this has something to do with the footage, or a combination of sequence settings.
In this case all the footage was ripped (legally) using MPEGStreamclip from DVDs to ProResHQ, and put into a 720x480 Sequence in FCP using the ProResHQ compressor.
Another curiosity is that I get the red timeline bar using Safe RT which should not be the case, since the footage codec matches the sequence settings.

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sorry about not starting a new thread (I wasn't sure if I should), I'll do so next time - hope you don't mind if I continue here for now.
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