Greyed-out Movie Title will NOT Sync

Hi Folks,
I imported a short (3 min.) home movie into my Movie Folder (.mp4) in iTunes for Windows. It appears in iTunes just fine, and it PLAYS - in iTunes - just fine.
Trouble is...when I attmept to sync my U2 Video iPod, the Title for that home movie is in gray - not black like the others. I check the box so this movie will sync, I hit the sync button...and it does NOT transfer to the U2 iPod.
All other movies (w/titles in BLACK) transfer/sync just fine. The one in GRAY does not.
I did try the "Make an Apple Ipod Version" i.e. Convert...and the file it creates (.mv4) exhibits the same behavior: it shows up in my Movie folder, I can play it WITHIN iTunes for Windows, but the Title of said movie is in GRAY when I attempt to sync and it will NOT transfer. Please help! Anyone? Thanks!

Sorry for the incomplete directions.
RIght-click > Get Info on the home movie. Change the title to anything else, just to make sure you have Windows permissions to change the file and it is not set to read-only. You can always change it back, assuming permissions are correct. If the change doesn't "stick" permissions are not correct.

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