Deleted podcasts

since itunes 11 was installed, I find that podcasts that I have played and deleted, are still displayed in any playlists that I originally had them in.  The only difference is, that they are tagged for downloading.
As I am constantly adding new podcasts to my playlist, and I often have 3 copies of the same podcast in the playlist, the appearance of the old episodes just clutters up the list.
It it extremely tedious, having to delete these items again. 
I presume this is a bug in the latest Itunes version.  Any idea when Apple will fix this problem.

Select the iPod name in the iTunes sidebar, under DEVICES. Over to the right, look on the Podcasts tab. It is probably set to +Sync *all unplayed*+. If you play the podcast, even for a few seconds in iTunes or on the iPod, it is no longer considered "unplayed." So the next time you sync the iPod, it will no longer appear on the iPod under Podcasts.
If you want the all podcasts to be on the iPod, change that setting to +Sync all+.
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