Adding new podcasts - not showing up in iTunes music store

Is there some sort of manual process that must be undertaken when you add a new podcast to your site, to get it to show up in itms?
I successfully added my podcast series (had two of them ready to go) and submitted to ITMS. They accepted it, and it shows up just fine there. But after adding a third episode last night, it still only shows two episodes this morning.
Is there something more I must do?
Jim

OK, I got it to work by running the feed through
feedvalidator and fixing all the errors. The wierd
thing is that the xml file was created by a program
called RSSBuddy, so it shouldn't have been messed up.
Interesting. I suspect that the XML parser used by the iTunes Store is fussier than the iTunes software itself!
I guess I need to find a new program for editing the
RSS feed. Any recommendations?
If you're on a Mac then Podcast Maker is a great choice. For Windows there's a product made by Feed4All.
Cheers,
Greg.

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My feed had been working fine in iTunes until I uploaded a new episode yesterday. However, this new episode (#8) is not appearing in iTunes (or stitcher for that matter, which I was just approved for yesterday).
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Your iTunes Store page is at
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Apple may have tightented their feed syntax checking
and is now failing your feed where it may have passed
previously.
As for an official comment from Apple - we see the
infrequent comment from an official rep, but nothing
you should count on.
Okay, I've go in and tried to look at the podcast feed generators code.. and I've found the following...
Using the feed validator that you linked to, I see that one of the errors is with itunes:link, saying it's an undefined channel element...
This is how the podcast.php generates the code for the feed element itunes:link ..
//huge iTunes-image (the apple method from the early days)
echo "<itunes:link rel=\"image\" type=\"video/jpeg\" href=\"".$settings['url']."/audio/itunescover.jpg\">";
echo str_replace("&", "&", itunform($settings['sitename']))."</itunes:link>\n\n";
Is there anything wrong with that? What can I change?
Secondly, the other "error" is for another element, itunes:category.
The podcast.php generates it like this:
//iTunes categories!
$allcats = array(
$settings['feedcat1'],
$settings['feedcat2'],
$settings['feedcat3'],
$settings['feedcat4']
foreach ($allcats as $thiscat) {
$main = false;
if ($thiscat != "00-00") {
if (substr($thiscat,3) != "00") {
$maincat = substr($thiscat,0,2) . "-00";
echo "<itunes:category text=\"".$cat_table[$maincat]."\">\n";
$main = true;
echo "<itunes:category text=\"".$cat_table[$thiscat]."\" />\n";
if ($main) { echo "</itunes:category>\n"; }
//normal categories
foreach ($allcats as $thiscat) {
if (filled($cat_table[$thiscat])) {
echo "<category>".$cat_table[$thiscat]."</category>\n";
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Any Gurus out there?
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Network Adapter Information
Description: Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection - Packet Scheduler Miniport
IP Address: 10.0.1.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 10.0.1.1
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Try the following:
Refresh page: Search for the page again by clicking the Refresh button. The timeout may have occurred due to Internet congestion.
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Error Code: 502 Proxy Error. Not implemented (-2147467263)
IP Address: 69.44.123.24
Date: 2/27/2006 12:32:50 AM
Server: damonsta.improvTech.local
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