Messing up my podcasts

iTunes 7 start to displace my new downloaded podcasts. iTunes 6 used on disk a folder structure like: ./podcasts/<Podcast Directory name> / <Podcast Name.mxx>. iTunes 7.01 download new podcasts directly in the Podcast folder ignoring the existing folder that kept the different podcasts subscriptions separated. For example Podcast "ASTR 1020 Stellar and Galactic Astronomy Video Podcast Lecture 4.m4v" have the following annotations (Load the Podcast directly in QT and use command J to find these):
Album: ASTR 1020 Stellar and Galactic Astronomy Video Podcast
Title: ASTR 1020 Stellar and Galactic Astronomy Video Podcast Lecture 4
If correct the podcast should be downloaded to a folder with the name:
./Podcasts/ASTR 1020 Stellar and Galactic Astronomy Video Podcast". iTunes 7 however downloaded the podcast directly to the folder Podcasts. This cause it troublesome to find the individual podcast back on disk. Because spotlight doesn't recognize annotations...

I'm noticing a similar problem. Since updating to iTunes 7.0.1 (I skipped 7.0), my one video podcast goes directly into the podcast folder (iTunes Music/Podcasts instead of iTunes Music/Podcasts/Refrederator), but the audio podcasts are still going into their own folders (such as iTunes Music/podcasts/Mac OS Ken) as before.
I only have one video podcast, but I'm wondering, is this a problem for all video podcasts? And not the audio ones?
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