ITunes 10.5.2(11) Podcast Download Trouble

I upgraded iTunes to 10.5.2(11) and I am having trouble downloading podcasts. The downloads all start but stall and never complete. I rarely get any errors from itunes, but, occasionally I will see one that indicates a firewall issue. To make sure, I disabled my firewall and the problem persisted. I have made no other changes to my Mac aside from the iTunes update. Has anyone else seen this problem? Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
Henry

Duncan,
I successfully downloaded the latest edition by going to the Store area. It took around 10 minutes. iTunes behaved fine and indicated the progress of the download.
However when I try to download another lecture via the iTunes U option within iTunes, the software freezes.
There is no progress bar and I can't change focus within iTunes. The only option I have is to kill the process from the Task Manager.
The lockup occurs almost immediately after I click on the Get button.
In previous months the downloads worked fine.
Thanks for your assistance

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