After iOS 4.2 smart playlists are empty

After the update, my podcast smart playlists are empty. I tried restoring my ipad but it didn't make a difference. Any ideas?

just updated to 4.2.1 and have exactly the same problem.
1) Smart Playlists with podcasts only don't show anything on iPad "No Music", but iTunes (Mac 10.1) reports that they are in the playlist.
2) If I drag to a playlist on the iPad, they do show up, BUT...
3) ... If you don't have at least one song on your iPad, YOU WILL NOT SEE the podcasts in the playlist.
Let me add that you do see the podcasts in all cases under "Podcasts" on the iPad.
Forget about syncing, turning on/off the iPad, change music sync, etc. Doesn't work.
Most likely I'll go back to 3.2
p.s. no such problem on iPhone
p.p.s I hate the way playlists work with video podcasts. After the video podcast is over all of sudden you find yourself out of the iPod app and in movies and either have to chose podcasts under the movies to see another video podcast, or otherwise returns to the iPod and go to the next podcast.

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