Bad iTunes/iPod podcast sync

I've noticed iTunes 7 handles podcasts particularly poorly. I've got it set to copy the last 3 episodes of a selection of podcasts to my 2G iPod. Some of them don't appear in the "podcasts" icon under the iPod in iTunes, nor do they appear in the "podcasts" playlist when using the iPod itself. They also don't show up as "Music" when viewed through iTunes, although they can be found by album or artist when using the iPod itself. Among the annoying side-effects are the fact that these "lost" podcasts are re-copied every time I sync the iPod, and there appears to be no straightforward way to delete them.
I dropped two episodes of a podcast that I don't subscribe to (ie, I just picked up two ad hoc episodes from the iTunes store) and they were treated the same way - they're on the iPod, but not on its "podcasts" playlist, and totally invisible to iTunes.

I figured out part of the problem - I had the sync set to copy "last 3 unplayed episodes", rather than "last 3 episodes".
Still, I see no way to get ad hoc episodes of podcasts (ie, from series I don't subscribe to) from the iTMS and into an iPod.
Dual 1.8 GHz G5 Tower, PB G4 1.33, G4 Cube 450 MHz   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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