Manual Play Order for Podcast "My Stations" in iTunes?

I have created my own podcast station and have set the "Play Order" to "Manual". However, I can't figure out how to move around the individual podcast episodes to manipulate the play order. I expected to be able to drag-and-drop the episodes in whatever order I wanted. Can anyone help me figure out how to manually reorder the play list??

I would also like guidance. I can create a Playlist, and that works fine to sort podcasts manually, and I can sort the podcasts in the "My Podcasts" pane, but I cannot seem to adjust the order when set to "Manual" in the "My Stations" pane.

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Oh? What a strange assumption — I listen to them all
the time. Do you always assume that others share your
ignorance and difficulties? That must be comforting.
Speaking only for myself, then, I have no indication
in my iTunes of your "download" date. "Release" is a
date column that is displayed in the Podcast playlist
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it shows September 2005 when I first subscribe to
some podcast, that same date is still displayed after
I download (using "Get") in March 2006.
Sorting on Release in iTunes does just that, and it
is that order which, as far as I've ever been able to
tell or determine, absolutely determines the order of
podcast play in the Shuffle.
Given the choice between my experience and your
claims and assurances, I believe I'll just stick with
what I know to be the case.
I did but to no avail. The reason I am so ****
......... etc.
You did what but to no avail? Put in your
iTunes Feedback and are now cranky that things didn't
just automatically change by that very afternoon?
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Haunted New Jersey
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