Umm, it seems you found a slight bug. I just checked on my test site and sure enough, you can't change the main category. Something I overlooked. You can edit the subcats though, but just deleting the name will not delete the category. I'll post the fix for updating the top category name on my next break. As far as deleting a cat, next release will have that.
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