Layer Color not selectable?

I have an imported svg file that I've saved to Illustrator 17.1. I can't seem to change the layer colors (they're all the same light blue) - the only options that come up in the Layer Options dialog are checkboxes for Lock and Show. Oddly, duplicating a layer seems to give the new layer a different color, but again I can't set the color of that layer myself.
Really want to be able to do this, as I use layer colors to track their status (red = not even close to done, yellow = in progress, green = done in MY eyes, blue = done in the CUSTOMER's eyes).
Thanks
Tom

It was an Inkscape file saved as Plain SVG.
The strokes and fills generally imported fine. I had some filter effects and embedded pngs that did not import, but I was not unhappy about that. The layer structure generally came over fine, although there were many (sometimes MANY MANY) more Groups than in the original. Still, not hard to fix.

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