Manually managing podcasts in iTunes 7

Hi,
I installed iTunes 7 for XP last night and I've had all sorts of problems. This is the one that's kiling me:
I usually use iTunes to download podcasts. I then manually drag and drop the podcasts to my iPod from iTunes. Now for some reson, iTunes won't let me drop a podcast on my iPod. I can drop a song so it seems like it is a podcast specific problem.
Does anyone know if this is a bug or some type of new "feature". If it's a bug, I might just wait for a fix (I can use iTunes to sync on my other PCs). I'm concerned that it might be some new way to manage podcasts. If so, I'll downgrade.

I found that when new Podcasts are downloaded, they show up in my library under each Podcast feed, but they are grayed out and not selectable. This NEVER happend in iTunes 6. You are able to find the file on your hard drive and if you change anything in the file name (add a space, delete a character) you can then drag it into your library or directly on your iPod. This is definetly a bug in 7.

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