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To mention just that:

The data of the above mentioned site indeed show ICAO code but if you choose to have only WMO code afterwards than it shows ICAO code again.

To sum this up - like Wally Mayo said - there must be a small bug in DAWS.

May be it is a question of the data that one loads down.

I have just corrected an incorrect address of the site of
"METAR from FSU (worldwide)" in the DataRetrieval Window of DAWS.

There originally stood
"http://www.met.fsu.edu/Data/archive/metar/20@Y@M@D@H_metar..." or something like this ...

I am just trying the Demo-Download of DAWS with the most actual patch.

I tried to show different Identifiers for the stations - choosed within the preferences between ID (ICAO) and ID (WMO) - but in any case in the map I always get the WMO-Identifier, never the ICAO Code of stations.
I did not have ...