Reel Name Renames Itself

Hello,
I am currently working in Final Cut 5. One of my iMacs that I use for digitizing renames the Reel Name according to what the last tape name was that was captured to that project. (If I changed out drives it follows the name of the last tape digitized to the project that I open) Here is an example: 7 tapes were captured to a drive and starting with the lable RRC 001 and ending with RRC 006. (This digitizing was done on a diffferent computer, which I don't have a problem with. ) I now have some new tapes to captured with the first one needing the reel name "RRC BRoll 4A", I name the reel in my capture window, capture the tape and Final Cut relables the tape as "RRC 7". It is also labled this in the capture scratch. What setting is set in Final Cut to rename my reel name?
Thanks for any help.

Thanks for the help! Sometimes you just think too hard and the basic answer is just to trash your preferences. :-P Thanks again!!

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