ITunes U playlist on my iPod video

I feel like this is a really dumb question, but...well...here it is. I've downloaded and synched a bunch of iTunes U content. But on my iPod it shows up as just another playlist, and all of the content is unceremoniously dumped into that single playlist.
I can't tell which podcast goes with which course, or in what order, or anything.
And I can't find a setting to organize it properly, or make it show up as a podcast (like it used to).
I updated my software (iTunes and iPod). What on earth am I missing?

tlysis wrote:
No. This problem is not "Solved". same problem here. This seems obvious it is an iOS 4 issue given the start dates of this and other threads. The workarounds are just that and should be temporary until this bug is fixed. We don't pay the Apple premium for kluges like manually changing the media kind on each iTunes U file as it comes in on so basic a problem. Apple?
The problem is not iOS 4, which supports iTunes U just fine, but rather that, having introduced the iTunes U feature into iTunes they didn't either issue firmware updates to add a corresponding section into all older iPods or simply make iTunes change the media type to podcast on-the-fly during sync as it copies items to the device. Of course it's not too late for either of these approaches but the fact that it has been ignored for so long already suggests nothing will happen now.
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