Keeping Podcast Episodes

My podcast selections update according to the schedule I have selected in iTunes preferences; however when a new episode is downloaded the previous episode is overwritten. I have selected "Keep all episodes" and to try an alternative "Keep last 'x' episodes".
This occurs on both my iMac and my iBook. Could it be because I am still using 10.3.9?
Can anybody please help me to keep all episodes until i decide to manually delete them? Thanks.
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) iBook G4
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) iBook G4

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