Itunes 11.2 Podcasts continually downloading old episodes

Since updating to 11.2 my podcasts have been giving me a couple issues:
(1) Everytime I start iTunes and try to refresh my podcasts it automatically starts to download all the old episodes of certain shows.
     - I've tried to delete them manually but it just downloads them again.
     - I've marked them as "played" and left them to be deleted automatically after 24 hours as they are supposed to be but they just download again instead.
NOTE: It's only doing it for a few podcasts from one provider (AfterBuzzTV) but it is not doing it for every show i subscribe to from them.
(2) The ones it is not automatically downloading every old episode of have had the titles changed to "Unknown Album".
     - I tried restarting iTunes and my computer since this seems to have worked for other people with the "Unknown Album" problem in the past but it does not work for me.
Basically it tries to download around a 100 episodes or so everytime I open iTunes, some of which are over two years old.

Agree.  Same issue...  ;-(
The other significant probelm is that my podcasts stop playing after about 90 seconds and then the Podcasts application suddenly quits.  This is for the birds.
I've tried playing with the Sleep Timer (turning it on and off, asking it to sleep after the current episode, etc.).  Rebooting the iPhone, ...
Nothing works.
Apple, What's going on here?  Your latest software upgrade are RETROgrades!
Mac OSX 10.9.3, iPhone 5, iTunes 11.2.1

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