Yes, this is definitely not the best place to ask new questions. And I would rather see this new general thread featured than this old one 
OpenCutList logic is fully based en SketchUp component logic. And I remain convinced that this is the best approach. The name is written only once and refer to only one drawing pattern.
So part’s names are definition names and must be unique, yes.
So if you want the see 4 different parts instead of 1 part with quantity of 4, you have to made component unique… or uses the DC name attribute to customize part’s names.