The Masters

Hey guys, not sure if this has been posted, but i searched around and couldnt find much.

Me and a few buddies are having a hard time playing together on one PS3. Two of us created characters on my PS3 and the other two made theirs on another PS3. For some reason the game wont allow us to merge the profiles together on one PS3 saying that there is already an identical name loaded (when there clearly is not).

Its kind of hard to explain, but only the "user 1" player is not allowed to be transferred from either of the PS3's. Since my profile was made as a secondary character, i have no issue copying my character to play, so thats why im thinking its a game problem more then hardware or a PS3 problem over the games.

Any help or direction is much appreciated.