Deleting old unsubscribed podcasts

Hey,
I have a 60GB 5G Video Ipod and subscribe to many podcasts. I have stopped subscribing to some but for some reason the name of the podcast still appears on my ipod. There are the names of Podcasts that I have deleted along time ago but still are on the iPod podcast libary, not the itunes libary.
The names also don't appear on the "summary" menu only on the ipod itself. Not a big deal but a bit annoying,
thanks

There is a couple ways to have iTunes remove old podcasts and they all depend on how you kept the podcasts in the first place.
1) select the group of podcasts and then click "Allow auto delete" then on the next refresh of your list iTunes will automattically remove these podcasts from your system
2) change the subscription settings for that podcast by selecting the title of the podcast in your list and going to "Settings" at the bottom of your screen and you can then set it to keep only the most <blank> podcasts, all podcasts or all unplayed podcasts
3) the method suggested by Roger

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I've been searching the archives for the old iTunes-11.1-deletes-all-my-podcasts solutions, and you seem to have the best handle on what's going on.
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