File renaming: unwanted suffix after sequence number

Hi all,
I am encountering some issues when renaming my files to sequence them.
My renaming template is: Custom Text_Sequence Number (3 digits)
Let's say my Custom Text is "20100702_LR", Lightroom shows me that the file name should be "20100702_LR_001.nef" and so on.
However, for some reason, sometimes Lightroom randomly assigns "-1" after the file name, such as "201007_LR_002-1.nef".
It doesn't seem to follow any rule. Sometimes that unwanted "-1" suffix is appended to the file name, sometimes it isn't.
Has this happened to anyone before? Is there an explanation and a solution to this problem?
Thank you in advance for your precious help.

no conflict but a bug. It happens (in my case and some others reported it also, do a search on this forum) if you renamed during import, deleted some files after import in a selection proces and renamed/renumbered again with the same text/preset etc. It worked normal in LR2.x now it doesn't anymore.
Workaround: rename to some bogus name and rename again with the preset name you it want it to have.

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 color="#800000" size="2">~~ John McWilliams
 
 
 
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 Canon DSLRs

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