Front Row Shows Deleted Content

I recently moved all of my content from my Powerbook to my iMac. I had deleted many things before even starting the process.
The other day, I was in Front Row and noticed that many of the movies in the Movies section were previously deleted. Why are they still showing up? They are inactive, and show "no content found" error messages.
FYI, I checked other posts of similar types. These files are not iTunes movies and never were cataloged as such.
How do I delete them from the list and out of my life?
thanks.
benson

Yep, same here -- this happened after a Time Machine restore after I had to replace an external drive that I kept my iTunes library on. I didn't have my podcasts backed up (naturally) so the iTunes library file still had all of the old podcast entries even though the files no longer existed.
However, since then, I have pruned and updated all of the podcasts sources so they are empty/list only the files that are on disk. But Front Row lists them all, as they were before the crash and the subsequent editing! (And accessing them gives me the "No content found" error, too.)
So yes, I'm ALSO looking for a way to reset Front Row and have it refresh to show the same list that I can see in iTunes.

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