I'm not really sure how to explain this, but I'll try.

Last night I was working with Aiko. I had the following figures (not props) in the scene:

Figure 1
BootL
BootR

I also had a dynamic dress prop.

I tried to add another figure, a piece of jewellery.  It would seem to add to the scene fine, until I switched to another room and then I got a message saying that 2 figures had the same name and one was renamed.

Figure would become "Bracelet 1" or something or one of the boots would take on the name of the bracelet and the bracelet itself would no longer show on Aiko, but it was still in the drop down menu.

Everything had a different name, so I don't know why Poser was renaming existing figures.

Poser 6 with all SR releases.

I used to get that in Poser 6.   There was a thread about it in the forum, but I'm not sure that it established the reason for the problem:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2658601

haha, what a totally pointless thread that was!  LOL

Anyway, according to that thread some are having it happen after they have renamed a figure. It's happening to me without my having renamed a figure.  It's driving me nuts!  I got the bracelet added once, but closed my scene before saving it so I had to go and start again, and now I can't get the blasted bracelet on without it disappearing and Poser renaming one of my other figures, which all have different names from the get go.

I get that occassionaly in P6. I'm not quite sure what the pattern is, but I think it is immediately after I add figure to the scene and click the parameters tab.  Annoying.

Do you save with compressed files?   If not, can you browse the saved file and see what's what?  

Happened to me all the time!!  After adding another figure I would have to select the "BODY" (under figure) of the newly added figure before conforming it to figure 1 or whatever the main figure may be...  kinda dumb sounding "fix" but has always worked and I just plain got into the habit of it since!

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Morgano, no, I'm not using compressed files.  I just rename them manually in the text box (I guess that's on the parameters tab, can't remember).

@Acadia - crosstalk at least that's what I suspect . . . I'm not sure because I can't think of anything else . . . it happens in 6 it happened in 5 and 4 . . . Figure 1 is a rename to Mary add clothes Mary is back to Figure 1 - you don't notice until you go to another room . . . It's there and annoying. Could be the naming of the Boots open them in Notepad and change the Figure 1 to BootL etc. see it helps.