Has Podcast "Update Podcast" as a contextual menu item been moved?

Has "Update Podcast" been moved down the 'right click list'? I've recently found myself hitting "Mark as Played" when I'm intending to update the available files and I'm pretty sure I'm not going crazy or senile, but it's completely screwed up my podcasts.

an89ag I know what you mean… I have nine TEDTalks video Podcasts that I downloaded from the TEDTalks' web site that, when added to iTunes, show up as Movies instead of Podcasts. From the iTunes "Get Info" they are identical to the TEDTalks Podcasts I downloaded from iTMS. These are episodes that are unavailable via iTMS, either because they were never made available or they have since been deleted.
Not all of the video Podcasts I downloaded from TED do this. iTunes and iTMS recognized about five of them, duplicated the other fifty (which was a whole other problem!) and that leaves the nine orphans that I cannot get added properly to the Podcast Library.
Apparently there is an invisible tag that iTunes reads that indicates what kind of file it is and where it is supposed to go. It isn't iTunes fault if the maker of the Podcast tags it wrong, but it would be nice to have the option in iTunes to correct these hidden tags.
Anyone have a solution for correcting the hidden tags? … Besides Lostify and vID_Infiltr8, which do not have the Podcast stik.

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