ITunes tries to download old podcasts

Hi,
I have two computers (home and office) with the same podcasts subscribed to on both and the download setting is 'manually'. They both run on WinXP.
My office computer's iTunes works fine. I choose 'Update podcast' and it downloads the latest episode. No problem.
My home version though has suddenly gotten the dates wrong and when I want to update my podcasts it tries to download episodes from several weeks ago. Deleting the subscription and re-subscribing doesn't help.
I assume — but what do I know ? — that some file containing my podcasts list got corrupted. It somehow doesn't realize what the current date is and tries to download whatever episode was available when it got corrupted. And, yes, the date on my computer is correct.
If I am right, what file should I delete before resubscribing to my podcasts?
If I am wrong, has anybody got an idea about what's happening?
Thanks for any reply.
5th generation (60GB) Windows XP

Sorry for the bumps but I'm still looking for an answer to this problem. Sad thing is that I can't think of any other related program that has this problem. I don't want to abandon iTunes but I may have no choice.

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