Many old podcasts show :04 for length

Many of my older podcast episodes are now appearing as having a length of 4 seconds! The first 4 seconds play correctly, but after that iTunes believes the song is over and starts the next. The size of these podcasts is listed correctly -- in the several megabyte range --, and the files play correctly in when found in the finder. I've tried changing the files' "end time" in the "get info" window, but iTunes seems to refuse to make the change.
I don't want to just re-import the files, because then I'd lose playcount/last played data, and moreover, the manually imported files would not show up in the podcast section of iTunes. I cannot re-download some of the files, because many are from podcasts who only keep fairly recent episodes online.
Any ideas?

NPR and a few other podcasts were caught by an update to the MP3 playback engine in iTunes 6.0.2. They used to combine a lead-in commercial/ID with the rest of the podcast in a way that didn't quite follow MP3 standards. iTunes 6.0.2 adhered a little tighter to the convention, and only sees the first segment in the file. NPR corrected their file creation process shortly after 6.0.2's release.
I haven't seen a description for reprocessing the old files so that they work with the new iTunes, but a 3rd party MP3 editor application may be able to recreate the file in a form more suited for iTunes. However, it will likely lose it's ability to be associated with the original podcast entry.

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