ITunes podcast title vs. Feedburner feed name vs. Wordpress Category

Hello all,
I just had my podcast approved and listed on iTunes, yay!
Now, my problem is as follows:
I have a specific category on my Wordpress site which generates a feed that is then "burned" by Feedburner. iTunes then links to my Feedburner feed. So far so good.
The problem is that instead of picking up the feed name that I set up on Feedburner, iTunes is picking up my Wordpress category name. When opening the Feedburner feed, the feed page also shows the category name instead of the name I set up when signing up for the Feedburner account.
This is probably more of a Feedburner question rather than an iTunes question (now that I wrote it all down!)
Any insights? (I've already done the "SmartCast" setting-up on Feedburner)
Thanks!

GORS,
Wow, I guess I should have posted it then. Now I'm not 100% sure I remember what I did.
On Feedburner, you can click on "Optimize" then, right under your feed title at the top of the page, click on "edit feed settings." You can edit the name of the feed there.
And don't forget to re-sync the feed after the changes. Also, remember that iTunes will not pick up the changes right away.
Let me know if this works for you.

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share to itunes.
drag file to desktop.
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2. In that folder is a file ending in .html that is named just like the folder. Open the file in an HTML editor like Coda or TacoHTML.
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