ITunes music store not updating podcast part 2

Hi there,
I seem to be having the same problem as a lot of people in the fact that my podcasts aren't getting updated in the iTunes music store.
I've pinged my podcast and it comes back with 'No Podcast Found For Ping Request.'
I've used feedvalidator.org to check on possible errors and the only one I can find is when it comes back with this message:
Your feed appears to be encoded as "UTF-8", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII"
I haven't got a clue what this means....
If you subscribe to my podcasts, the latest one gets downloaded to you, but there's only one appearing in the itunes store.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance,
Olive

Hey guys, here is what I posted in another thread because I was having a similar problem. Run your rss feed through feedvalidator.org and see if there are any problems-then try to resolve them. Anyway, it's kinda long, but here's what helped me!
I found the answer thanks to Rob @ podcast411.com!! I ran my rss feed through feed validator, and found that I was using a category that iTunes no longer used. I didn't think this would've mattered, but I went into my rss.xml file and updated the category from Sports to Sports and Recreation, and a few minutes later all was well in the ITMS. The trick was finding the rss.xml file. Here's what I did:
Mount iDisk
open web folder
open rss folder
open iWeb folder
open kangaroopodcast folder (this one will be named what you named your website in GarageBand)
open podcast folder
ctrl-click rss.xml file and choose to open with Text Edit (this is where I had my trouble because at first I didn't open it with a different program than the default one and it was some goffy game-I guess apple was trying to mask it so you don't mess up your rss feed)
next make appropriate changes (here you can use the info from the podcast tech specs page to know how to use the proper "language" to make the category change.
Anyway, I know this was long, but I hope that it helps someone else because I spent a while trying to figure it out!

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