Lol. So you are saying that your bone objects are just called “Bone”? I just checked, it does not mater if you are in Pose Mode vs Edit Mode. I thought that would be the problem, but I guess it is not. Do you happen to remember if you changed any of the settings when you were trying to figure this out on your own? That might be the problem. What computer operating system are you using? I am on windows 10. It sounds a little weird but if you are on a different operating system it might change the names of the bones. Not likely though. Also, when you generate a rig, it leaves the old bones behind and makes a new object. You might have not selected that new object. That could be the problem. Have you checked to see if there is some problem somewhere other than that? If not, I hopefully will not change anything. If you can see no problems other than the bone names, I would just continue on with the rigging.
Plz, don’t hesitate to ask more questions!
Gurthang325