Why can I not add custom labels to some contacts?

Some contacts seem to have no ability to have custom labels be added to the label field, while others do. Why is this, and how can I fix it?

I've been so used to working seamlessly from external drives (I had a MBPro 2.2, 120GB drive, tip-toeing around in Lion), that it never occured to me that it would be different in ML on my new Mac Mini. So, yes, after further investigation, the problem seems to only occur on the ONE external drive which I used all the time for all my video files, photos, music and any other large folders. (I plan to migrate most of it to my main drive now that i have 1GB to play with, so it's a temporary hiccup at least.) This probably also explains why I have to "authorize" any move or transformation on that drive, but WHY? It doesn't happen on other drives and I even tried changing permissions to Read and Write for Everyone, to no avail. Perhaps it's still tied in to the MacBook somehow, but then so would be the other drives. ???
Anyway, thank you for your time and for making me delve into this further. At least now I know it doesn't affect the main system.

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