AAC m4a podcast - Plays in iTunes, but won't sync to iPod, HELP!

Really confused with what's happening here. The podcast isn't on the iTunes store, so I know it's not guaranteed to work with iPod, but I've never had any problems with m4a or AAC files before, and I know it's supposed to work on iPods, so why wouldn't mine?

As a footnote to your answer I'd like to add the following:
I experiened this exact problem AND I had made sure that the artwok appeared in every entry. The only differrence was that I was saving the artwork to disk, selecting ALL the entries for a specific album, selecting get info (multiple) and then double clicking the artwork field and browsing my hard drive to locate the artwork.
After doing this, the artowrk did appear in ITunes but would not download to the iPod.
My solution was to still pick all the album's songs but rather than search the hard drive for the artwork, I would find it on the web and copy the image (simple copy). After this I would simply paste it in the multi artwork field.
This has worked ever since and will surely cure the above artwork problem.
- Machine

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