Mountain Lion renaming my computer

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, I get a message that another machine on my network is using my computers name. It renames my machine by adding 1 to the previous name. I only have one other computer on my network and it uses a different name. When it gets to 40, I change back to the orginal name in the sharing preferences. Any idea as to what is going on?

Okay... this is embarassing. After spending a bunch of time with an Apple tech representative I figured out the problem:
After changing the name of the computer (System Preferences/Sharing), I was clicking on the lock icon to prevent further changes (as though I was saving what I had done when changing the name). THAT was the problem!
The RIGHT thing to do was to simply close out of preferences to save the name change! Clicking on the lock un-did the name change!
So simple...

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