Managing Video Podcasts

I needed to replace my Gen1 Nano and after a lot of thought, I went with a 5.5Gen 30G iPod. After playing with it for a while, I found myself stumped on a few things.
I subscribe to a few audio podcasts and I love having it keep any episodes that I havent listened to on my iPod until I listen to them. I also am subscribed to a video podcast (Homestar Runner!) and I want to have all of those episodes on my iPod as well. In trying to accomplish this, I think I stumbled on some strange issues with iTunes.
On the iPod->Podcasts screen, it looks like I either have the newest OR all of a podcast synched to the iPod. No way to have all episodes of THIS podcast and only new episodes of THAT podcast. I made a smart playlist that filtered out a few video podcasts and when I sync it, if i look at what is on the iPod in iTunes, I see it like i should, but when I disconnect the iPod, I see that playlist as empty under Audio->Playlists, and nonexistant under Video->Video Playlists. None of those podcast videos are anywhere to be found from the main menu.
If I make a regular playlist and put some video podcast episodes in it, I see the playlist under Video->Video Playlists and all the episodes are there. None of them are under Video->Movies or Video->Video Podcasts though.
This seems very inconsistant. Can anybody explain why I am seeing this behavior? I am really thinking about returning this iPod (yayy Walmart!) and getting the 8GB Nano like I originally planned.
Thanks
jorj

It may be inconsistent but I think that is the way it is supposed to work.
Going with Nano you will not be able to have videos of any kind on iPod.

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