Why Can't I Rename a Sequence?

Ok, so I'm in the project panel, right?  Minding my own buiz and doing what I do.  I want to rename a sequence that I've instinctively named "fat chick" because, well, uh, she was a bit heavy (and in a bikini).  Well, now I need to show the "fat chick" that's paying me what her sequence looks like.  So I want to change "fat chick" to "cute lady" so she's happy.  But guess what?  I can right-click and hit rename, but I never get further than that.  I can't rename it.  So I had to show her the sequence and hope she'd only see the video, not the name of the sequence. 
What's weird is I can rename a whole bunch of other sequences, but the other half of the time I can't.  Oh, I can rename it if it's sitting in the timeline of another sequence... but it only changes it there in the timeline.  (I've posted on this before I realize this is a limitation in Premiere).  But this is different.  I want to rename sequences from the project panel but can't.
Now she's all mad at me and threatening a lawsuit becaue I hurt her feelings, yada, yada.  It's a disaster... all this because I couldn't change the sequence name.
Ok, so the story's made up, but the renaming problem is true.  Is this a bug?  How can I rename sequences when they don't want to be renamed and are perfectly satisfied with the first name I gave them?

Yeah, that's what's supposed to work.  But when I click on the text of the sequence in the project panel, it just highlights it out (grey), but doesn't turn it into a white rename box like it does most of the other times.  Ok, whatever... so I'll just right click > rename.  No dice there either, although the option is available.  I click "rename" and nothing ever happens.  I can't rename it.  But when I do either of the above on other sequences it works as expected.
I restart Premiere and the computer and the same thing.
I then close my sequence timeline and try to rename and it still doesn't work.  Then I try importing the project into a new project and it still does it.
I have a work around when that happens (copy/paste into a new sequence with the name I want) but why would I be unable to rename certain sequences and others I can in the same project?    

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