InCopy Story double adornments

I know this probably belongs in the InCopy forum, but the InDesign Forum seems to get more traffic.
ID/IC CS6 (fully patched)
OS 10.6.8
I have recently upgraded to CS6 and a weird issue has come up.
When I export stories for InCopy, some of my files are getting both the regular "Story is available" icon AND a smaller icon behind it: the "Story checked out" icon.
This is not a case where there are two stories stacked on top of each other. There is only ONE text frame in the screen shot above. If I drag the frame, sometimes the "checked out" icon moves with the frame, sometimes it appears elsewhere on the page (not connected to a frame, just floating!)
I have tried clearing preferences, round-tripping the file through IDML, unlinking then re-exporting the InCopy files, but the double adornment remains.
The extra adornment remains (doesn't change icons) if I check the story out, or have someone else on the network check it out. The main adornment changes as expected, however.
I should note that these files are converted from CS5, not created natively in CS6. It doesn't happen with every file that I export, about 10%. If the double-adornment occurs at all, it occurs on all stories/frames in the document.
It doesn't seem to have any detrimental effects to the InCopy workflow, but it is very peculiar!

Hi there!
Story list files are common ... they are generated (as I recall) when a user renames a story in the Assignments panel (like renaming a layer or a paragraph style). This doesn't change the name of the linked ICML story, it's more of a "cosmetic" feature to more easily locate certain stories in the panel within ID and IC, especially when ID is auto-generating story names during export. For example you might change a story's name in the Assignment panel from "05-AcmeLayoutABC-oneday" to "Headline".
There are other non-worrisome XML files that might be generated in the workflow, like if an InCopy user changes the order of stories in Story/Galley view by dragging their grey story bars up and down. Basically these files keep track of these sorts of changes so all users working on the project see the cosmetically-renamed stories in the panel/new order of stories in the Story/Galley view.
Nothing wrong with right-clicking to check out one at a time.
I've never heard of Story List files making stories invisible, but yes, you should be able to delete them without a problem. I would probably make sure no one has checked out any stories from the INDD file and that all stories are up to date, first, and then close the INDD file, before deleting them though.
AM

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