Deleting podcast subscriptions

I have tried everything I can think of to delete podcasts I am no longer interested in, but they keep showing up on my I-Phone (4), even after synching. Have unsubscribed and deleted in I-Tunes.

I'm having similar problems with the dreaded exclamation point. Even after reading several threads, my problem still isn't solved. Here's the lowdown:
I've tested this feed on 7 different computers (5 PCs, 2 Macs).
All but 2 of the computers can subscribe and download the episodes with no problems. The troublesome computers? One PC. And one Mac.
The feed has been redirected through FeedBurner. I'm subscribing manually (and yes, I typed the feed correctly).
On the problem PC, I can't even get iTunes to recognize the podcast.
When I subscribe to the "original" .xml doc (not through FeedBurner), it works fine.
On the problem Mac, I can subscribe to the podcast. The episodes appear. But none of them will download. I get the exclamation point each time. Clicking on it reveals this message: "There was a problem adding ('Episode Name') to iTunes. The file might be corrupted, or a file type that iTunes cannot play."
When I subscribe to the "original" .xml doc (not through FeedBurner), it gives the same results.
The problem computers are both running iTunes 7.0.2 (15)
The 5 computers that work (Mac and PC) are running various versions of iTunes.
I've downloaded some random podcasts from the iTunes Store on the Mac. Some work. Some still give me the exclamation point.
I've downloaded some random podcasts (even others from FeedBurner) on the PC. Everything works - except the one I really need.
feeds.feedburner.com/upton
Can anyone help?

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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12113
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I’m in big trouble here. Upon completion of playing a podcast on my Mac (not through the iPod) I deleted it. Or so I thought, but I had my entire podcast library selected when I right-clicked, selected “Delete” and clicked “Move to Trash”.
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William,
I should clarify that because the subscription entries in the podcast section were selected as well, they’re gone, too. From what I can tell, the MP3 files alone do not bear enough information to recreate my subscriptions, and that’s a big part of what I want to recover. If anything, I’d sacrifice the media files if I could recreate the state of my subscriptions. Downloading it all again would be time-consuming (and a few of the podcasts may have disappeared from their publishers’ sites by now), but that would be preferable to manually re-subscribing and re-downloading everything, especially since I have a varied mix of listened-to and unlistened-to podcast episodes among my subscriptions. And some podcasts I keep after listening to them and others I listen to and delete.
No, I need to restore the state of the whole podcast library, not just the individual media files.
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