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Hi
Our most recent podcast (yesterday) (produced in Garageband 09 and iWeb 09, uploaded to our MobileMe account) appears in iTunes>Podcast folder with a Movie Icon next to it. The downloaded file does not open/play (no error message appears), nor will it synch to my iPod Touch. Other subscribers have noted the same problem. The warning message from the iPod synch: "xxx was not copied because the video format is not supported by iPod". This is the first time I have encountered this type of problem. Our iTunes page may be found here.
The latest version of the show appearing on our web site may be found here. Not sure why iTunes is now interpreting this file as a Movie? Perhaps this is an iWeb 09 bug?
All previous downloaded shows play correctly in iTunes and synch to the iPod Touch. Oddly, if I simply double-click the current show in iTunes i.e. don't download it, it plays as a Movie file would play. A separate screen appears with the slideshow magnified (blurry) to the full size of the screen. Other shows play as an audio file would play.
I read this Apple article, however it does not apply as I'm using the latest version of Quicktime -7.6. Our iTunes page may be found here.
In My User Account>Applications Support>iWeb>Domain Sites2> I see all shows, including the current one correctly coded as .m4a.
Appreciate any feedback or steps I can take to resolve this conundrum.

Thanks Roger. I appreciate the feedback. I did a search, but it seems I didn't go far enough back in time. As I haven't had this problem before, I suspected it was something new brought about by either Garageband and/or iWeb in their latest renditions.
As a test, I shared the podcast directly with iTunes. Then, via the Finder I had a look at the shared file in my iTunes Library folder. The file was saved correctly as a m4a file. So, I copied the file, then opened iWeb. In the Quicktime panel which held the original file shared from Garageband, I pasted the copied file. After saving, then publishing to MobileMe, I pinged iTunes again. By this morning, the m4a file had replaced the .mov file. All now is well.
Crazy to have to go through this type of workaround just to publish a podcast. Bug must be in the Garageband sharing to iWeb process. Finding it is another matter. I posted feedback to Apple via Garageband.
Thanks again for pointing me in a different direction. Appreciate it.

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