ITunes 7 Podcasts grayed out and unchecked

Can't figure this at all. I have podcasts set to download manually and Shuffle set to not autoload. I installed the upgrade over the weekend and all worked on Monday as expected.
Today I manually downloaded podcasts and they show as grayed out with no checkmark. I can't listen to them nor transfer to the Shuffle.

I also have the same issue- on occasion, when I open iTunes, and go do something else, then come back a little later, this issue tends to show up.
I have a substription to a podcast that requires a password- that box always pops up first- I think, but am not sure that this problem occurs when the box asking for the password isn't acknowledged right away.
Those podcasts not requiring passwords all appear to have downloaded, but are gray [instead of black], have no checkmark, can not be played in iTunes, but are in the appropriate podcast folder AND can be played locally by WinAmp.
Does anyone have any answers?!?!?!?!?!?
mediocre PC Windows XP Pro >2GHz

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