Unable to mount/format USB Drive

Han Solo wrote:
We were able to resolve cmajewsk problem. It turned out that when the USB drive was renamed a space was accidentally included. This caused the USB drive not to mount properly. The newer release p5 should not allow spaces for a USB drive name. If someone is using an older release either upgrade or just remember to check for any spaces when renaming a USB drive.

Thanks for the update.

I just upgraded my NV to p6 in order to try the fix. However, it seems the problem is that my external USB drive had been renamed with a space using p4. Even though the external USB drive has been re-partitioned and formatted on another machine, it still is recognized as the "MetalGear USB" I had set it to originally. Unplugging it from the NV doesn't allow me to change the name. Plugging it back into the NV gives me the three-option menu as described before (Locate, Format FAT32, Format EXT3) with a Go button that submits something...but nothing happens as before (with p4).

Is there a fix for this condition now? Or is the fix in p5 just so that future people don't have this problem? Is there anything I can do to somehow reset the drive such that it is tagged differently? (I have a feeling it is keying off the enclosure hardware ID itself, as the usbstorage.conf file is saying:

PROLIFIC_TECHNOLOGY_INC._MASS_STORAGE_DEVICE-0-067B25070000000000000000!!MetalGear USB!!ST340083 2A!!781422768!!1!!/dev/sda

Any ideas?
Thanks!