ITunes not reading feed correctly

I've had a feed with you for awhile now http://feeds.feedburner.com/VegetarianFoodForThought, and recently I had some trouble with an old version of the feed being read by iTunes.
After a couple days, it rectified itself, so all of the podcast episodes and the correct photo is showing up on iTunes, but there are still problems:
1. The description that I have configured through Feedburner to appear on iTunes is not being reflected on my iTunes page. How is it that the photo is correct, the mp3 files are correct, but the description is wrong?
2. Something has gotten totally messed up with my subscribers in my account with Feedburner. Before I had these problems with my feed, my subscribers totaled about 1400. Since the problem with iTunes has been semi-rectified, only 300+ subscribers are showing up in my account with you. When I asked Feedburner about it, this was their response:
"Looks like the drop was on june 17th. On that day, it seemed your feed was unreachable given the FeedMedic report under the Troubleshootize page at feedburner.com
Given the feed at your site was unreachable for about a day, I'm not sure how iTunes responds, if it auto drops the subscription or, perhaps it changed back to an old feed address. In any case, most of the aggregators that represent your top subscribers have consistent numbers after the 18th except for the huge drop in iTunes Windows and iTunes mac subscribers.
Your feed seems to be working fine since then so you might want to see if Apple can provide any insight into how they are processing your feed or the description issue."
Now I just don't know what to do. Any insights? Thoughts? Wisdom? Thank you!

Easy. The iTunes database is pointing to
http://www.compassionatecooks.com/podcast/fb-podcasts.
xml
which includes the <itunes:summary> tag (which is
where iTunes gets the podcast description) of:
itunes:summary>Each episode addresses commonly
asked questions about being vegetarian/vegan,
including those regarding animal rights, food,
cooking, nutrition, and debunks the myths surrounding
these issues.</itunes:summary>
Which is what iTunes is showing on the description.
iTunes will always pull the podcast description from
the <itunes:summary> tag over the rss <description>
tag (which is what a RSS reader or RSS enabled
browser would show as your description.
This may also account for your drop in subscribers.
You're no longer pointing iTunes to the Feedburner
URL, so new subscribers are being giving
http://www.compassionatecooks.com/podcast/fb-podcasts.
xml as a feed url and are subscribing to that feed.
Erik
Thank you! Where do I go to submit the feedburner URL for my existing podcast. I assume http://feeds.feedburner.com/VegetarianFoodForThought is the feed link I need to submit.

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