Difficulty submitting podcast feed to iTunes

Hello everyone,
My friend and I host a podcast at http://DWSPodcast.com
Our RSS feed is http://DWSPodcast.libsyn.com/rss
I go through the motions of submitting our feed to the iTunes Store:
sign in, store, podcasts, submit a podcast, insert feed, confirm info, see success page saying correspondence will be sent to my email.
Here is where my trouble occurs.
I never receive a confirmation email even though iTunes states that it knows where to send it. I have waited days-weeks to see if one would show up.
Here is another oddity. I can complete this submission process as many times as I like without receiving any submission error or 'already received' error.
I have checked my RSS feed with the feed validator and it is a legit feed. Libsyn support has also double checked my feed as well.
My podcast can be manually subscribed through iTunes and everything works fine.
I have tried submitting my feed from different computers on different networks to make sure it wasn't a local hang up.
We are already on stitcher radio and the Microsoft podcast network and really can't understand why our feed won't submit to iTunes.
It seems to be broken somewhere between the submission process and the apple servers.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
-Andrew

There is no obvious reason why there should be a problem. It can take several weeks before a podcast is accepted, so possibly you're just stuck in the queue, though in that case I would have expected further attempts to submit to produce an error message.
You could try emailing Support at podcasts 'at' apple.com, but I have to tell you that they are not noted for being helpful and you will very likely simply get a form answer telling you how to submit a podcast (which you already know). You might get better results if you can persuade Libsyn to chase it up - Apple are more likely to listen to them.

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