Editing incorrect video Podcast Metadata / Tag

Anyone have a solution for correcting a Podcast's hidden metadata tags so iTunes will properly identify a Podcast instead of filing it as a Movie?
Besides Lostify and vID_Infiltr8, which do not have the Podcast stik tag, or at least I couldn't find it anywhere.
I have nine TEDTalks video Podcasts that iTunes files as Movies. There are a total of 64 TEDTalks video Podcasts available, but iTMS only offers 55 of them. I downloaded 14 directly from TEDTalks and iTunes recognized 5 of them correctly, it is the remaining 9 that need metadata added or corrected so that iTunes will properly identify them as Podcasts instead of Movies.
I know this should probably be in the Producing Podcasts thread, but this sort of question is sort of beneath that level of technicality, know what I mean?

OK. This is yet another reason why I get frustrated with Apple at times. They INSIST on doing things FOR me without telling me when they do it or why (iTunes gapless playback scan for example).
On that note, IMO it's a bit arrogant of Apple to add proprietary and non-editable tags to the ID3 standard. You can change the Video Type in iTunes, but unless you use some cumbersome 3rd party utility or the import/export method mentioned in other posts, there is NO way to change the podcast flag.
Unfortunately, the iPod itself uses the same tag/database structure as iTunes, so if you use Anapod (as I do) to transfer files, you have no control over how videos and podcasts show up on the pod (Red Chair Software has yet to respond to my inquiries about adding this ability).
Edit the video type in iTunes? Sure. Problem is, it seems Anapod's database structure differs slightly from iTunes... If you mount an Anapod-managed iPod in iTunes, when you unmount and try to play files on the iPod itself, only the ones that were played in iTunes will play!!! All other tracks will get skipped over until you rebuild the database in Anapod.
Now, my wife has my old iPod photo with all my music on it, and she likes iTunes. When she opened the iPod in iTunes, about 1/4 of the tracks were labeled as podcasts (some with explicit content...lol). Of course when she later tried to play music on the iPod itself, everything would skip and I had to rebuild the database (as mentioned above). Now she uses Winamp with no trouble.
So... Does anyone know of a GUI (not command-line) based method of editing these "hidden" tags?
Sorry for ranting but thanks for listening.

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