It's impossible to create Enhanced Podcasts on Intel Macs. Please read.

After vast amounts of frustration trying to create an Enhanced Podcast on my MacBook Pro, I tracked down the source of the problem:
$ file /Applications/GarageBand.app/Contents/MacOS/ChapterTool
/Applications/GarageBand.app/Contents/MacOS/ChapterTool: Mach-O executable ppc
GarageBand uses ChapterTool to add the artwork and chapter stops to the AAC file, and ChapterTool is PPC only. Command-line applications do not run under Rosetta. Simply put, there's no way to author enhanced podcasts if you're using an Intel Mac. None. Every other tool out there to do so needs ChapterTool, too.
Pathetic. If you, like me, are an Intel Mac user who'd like to create Enhanced Podcasts, provide some feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/garageband.html
15.4" MacBook Pro, 2ghz, 2gb, 100gb @7200rpm   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Simply put, there's no way to author enhanced podcasts if you're using an Intel Mac.
Sorry, but I don't buy this. Just created an Enhanced Podcast without any problems. And given that the whole podcast stuff was introduced together with the Intel Macs, we would have heard a lot of complaints here in the forum during the last 10 months. You're the first.

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