ITunes 8.1 no longer deletes played podcasts for Shuffle during refresh

I lost two functions in the upgrade to 8.1, one of which is the auto delete of podcasts on my 1st gen iPod Shuffle to which I have already listened when I do a "refresh" from the iTunes Podcasts window. As it is now, I have to manually delete Podcasts on my Shuffle after doing this "refresh". How do I get this delete function to work again on the Shuffle?
Bill

I have the very same problem. You are not alone. You need to take a look at the shuffle 2nd gen. forums. Here is one link----http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1947573&tstart=0
we are all frustrated! Please fix this, Apple!

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