Deleted Podcasts Re-Download

I could not find ANYTHING about this.
I have a few podcasts that I subscribe to that will download old podcasts randomly. I have tried to ignore it for awhile but at this point, I'm getting tired of it. Anyone else get this? Is there a way to prevent it? If it is a server side error any suggestions?
I have not only had this problem on my home computer but on my work machine as well, a G4 as well. Thank you!

This happens to me, as well. I'm still searching for a solution.
It does not happen to all of my podcasts, just some of them. There is one that it happens to pretty regularly. For the subscriptions that keep on downloading old episodes after I delete them I have found that it seems to be doing the same episodes over and over.
My work-around has been to keep the re-downloading podcast episodes on the computer and scrub through them so iTunes thinks they have already been heard.
I listen to my podcasts using playlists that help me organize them. I make sure to put those re-downloaded/scrubbed podcast episodes into my "never delete" playlist so that they never show up in my "ok to delete" playlist. Since I'm not ever deleting these old podcasts iTunes doesn't download them again. It's not an ideal solution but at least it keeps me from re-downloading and listening to podcasts that I listened to over a year ago.

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finally worked! I found this post and it has finally worked I understand it is the same as WHATHECK's answer so thanks WHATHECK!
You have to be certain that you have backed up your Library's and Playlists and that you are doing the one in the root (if like me you use a HD any old library/playlists instead of deleting them put them some were safe just incase and make sure you are re-creating the library from your root folder i.e user/music/itunes
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