I keep having a deleted item not delete, shows up in a smart playlist??

Here's the deal...
I listen to a bunch of podcasts and starting about a week ago I noticed one episode I had deleted kept showing up as trying to sync. I thought I fixed it but now other episodes have this happen too after I thought I deleted it.
The file is deleted, moved to trash, even think I've trashed it. The file does not show up in the podcast area in itunes. But, the episode does show up in a smart playlist that had that file marked with 5 stars. If I look in the finder, that file is there so I delete it from finder that way.
After I delete it in the finder, the file is in the smart playlist but creates a "dead link" even though the file shows nowhere else in itunes. I must run the "super remove dead files" script (downloaded off the web) to find that dead link hidden somewhere in itunes and remove it.
This is really weird and is now happening almost every day with a different episode in my podcast list.
Any suggestions as to what needs to be deleted/re-created/cleaned up?
Thanks.

solved this on my own by running a script to remove the dead track from the playist

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