ITunes 7 Hates my Video Podcasts

Hoping someone can help. iTunes 7 won't play my old movies, music videos or video podcasts, either on the computer or on the ipod. It recognizes that I have them, but won't play them on the computer, and though I've selected all podcasts (also tried doing to manually), won't put any video on the ipod (including TV episodes purchased from apple).
Can anyone recommend a solution that doesn't include restoring iTunes 6?
Thanks.

OK, I spoke too soon on the audio podcasts. Many of my podcasts are just fine, but I have found one (it's an enhanced podcast, I'm not sure if that's the difference) that I cannot play and that I cannot transfer to my iPod (a 4g mini). I have always been able to transfer this podcast, and have it in my list of podcasts to sync.
I cannot sync this podcast, nor can I drag the podcast to my iPod within iTunes. I cannot play the podcast by clicking on it in iTunes, but! if I navigate to the file with Finder and open it, it opens and plays in iTunes! If I play another file, then try to play this podcast by clicking in iTunes, it no longer plays!
Between this issue, and the iTunes store causing iTunes to crash consistently since the upgrade to 7.0, I am going to have to consider moving to a different music system!

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