Well, once again, something plagues me for a long time, I finally post a question and then I have an epiphany.

There is a line in common.mk that specifies the name of the project
#===== NAME - name of the project (default - name of project directory).
NAME=$(PROJECT)

it was (the incorrect version)

#===== NAME - name of the project (default - name of project directory).
NAME=$(PROJECT)-$(SECTION)

I think the IDE may have done this.  I don't belive I did.  Anyway, something you may want to put on your list of IDE 
behaviors to examine....

Kevin