Import mp3s as podcasts??

Recently, downloads of podcasts through itunes has suddenly gone very slow for me. So i went straight to the site (http://www.twit.tv/mbw) and downloaded the mp3 file to listen to the podcast. Problem is when i double click on it, it imports to the MUSIC library of iTunes and not the PODCASTS section. My question is that is there any way to import such mp3 files i get from websites into the podcasts section? So that i don't need to download it through iTunes, and so that i can listen to the podcast from the podcast section and not by searching through a few hundred songs for a podcast that's somewhere in there...
thx in advance.

If it is any consolation, you are not alone.
My direct download podcasts end up in my music directory, and so do some of the iTunes podcasts. Worse yet, my audiobooks end up in my music directory, including the ones I downloaded from iTunes.
I have not yet found a way to move the audiobooks or the podcasts.
Perhaps with two queries here, someone will notice this problem.
Does anyone out there know how can to get these files in their proper locations?
PC Windows XP Pro

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