Starting to think it was just me. It may only happen a total of maybe 2 or 3 times in a year.
brundlefly
Click to track name at the bottom of the Inspector, and click the checked option 'Lock the Current Track or Bus' to unlock it.
Thanks brundle, but I have never checked this option as I never even knew it was there. Now that I do, it may come in handy in the future. In the mean time I'll just write this off as an unidentifiable/unreproducible bug.