IWeb, URL & RSS Feed Question

Hi,
I am trying to submit a video podcast to iTunes. I made the site with iWeb. I published it to a folder since I was placing it another hosting service.
1. When I publish to a folder iWeb asks for an address to set up the feed. My website is www.mediasupport.net. The address of the podcast page (one with the purple tower) is:
www.mediasupport.net/podcast/podcast.html. The address of the page with the actual movie on it is:
http://www.mediasupport.net/Podcast/2F164FF5-5706-41CE-9322-799D016FD259.html.
2. What address do I use for the URL that iWeb asks for when you publish to a folder?
3. When I go to iTunes to check to check for a valid feed I always get an error like -" link does not appear to be a valid..."
The last address I tried was itcp://www.mediasupport.net/Podcast/2F164FF5-5706-41CE-9322-799D016FD259.html
Thanks for your help,
Phil
G5 Power Mac Mac OS X (10.4.8)
G5 Power Mac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Where are you seeing these 'Play' buttons? I don't see any in the associated website, and the feed wouldn't contain them anyway.
All your episodes appear when subscribing in iTunes. All five episodes in the web page version of the Store page at
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/chris-brake-show-podcast/id725989655
but in the Store itself only the episode of 20 October appears, though the Store claims to be listing four episodes (it would be normal for today's episode not to have appeared yet). This I'm afraid is a bug in the Store which has been intermittently appearing for some time, and there isn't really anything you can do about it. Hopefully it will sort itself out eventually: your feed is OK.

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