ITunes-purchased TV shows sync to iPod touch (2G), but don't play

I've been fiddling with this for days now, trying to prep my daughter's iPod touch (2G, iOS 4.1) for a long family trip. Any suggestions here are much appreciated.
I purchased Vol. 1 of "Road Runner & Wile E Coyote" (a collection of 7 cartoons) via the iTunes store earlier this week. The files were downloaded without incident. I can play all of them on my MacBook Pro and iPad through the usual applications and apps. But... before I tried playing them on those devices, I tried -- unsuccessfully -- to sync them to the iPod touch, using iTunes (10.0.1, Mac OX 10.6.4).
When I sync, all the episodes are properly checked for syncing in "Sync TV Shows". The thermometer-like bar at the bottom of that window in iTunes shows that they will be added to the iPod and that there is plenty of room for them. After syncing, the files have definitely been added to the iPod: you can see the progress of the sync in iTunes, and another 1 GB of file space on the iPod has been consumed.
But I can't find them on the iPod to play. The "Videos" count in Settings > General > About is unchanged when I add or delete these shows, and they do not appear for playback in the "Videos" app. When I add or delete episodes of other TV Shows (also purchased through the iTunes Store), they appear or disappear as expected. There seems to be something about these shows (or their files) that trips things up.
In iTunes, the Advanced > Create iPod or iPhone Version menuitem is grayed out; I assume that the files downloaded from the iTunes store include both HD and SD versions.
So... iTunes believes it has copied them over, the files are copied over, but they remain invisible in the UI of the iPod.
Has anyone a suggestion for what I might try next?
TH

If you purchased an HD show, did you sync the SD or HD version?
You need to sync the SD version?

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