Issues changing DAQ name in Measurement and Automation.

I am currently using LabVIEW 8.2 w/Measurement & Automation 4.4.1 with Drivers 8.7. I am having using four USB6008s and cannot change the resource name in M&A. It seems to crash this application. Any ideas?

Thank you,
While running M&A, I would go under the Devices and Interfaces tab, select NI-DAQmx Devices, select my card which happens to be a USB6008. From this point I right click on the device and in the drop down menu I select Rename. After changing the name of the device I hit enter and wait. It eventually comes up with a fault indicator and states "
Measurement & Automation Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
At this point the window offers a "send fault to MS" or quit both resulting in the M&A application to close.

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