My feed won't upload to iTunesU, but works fine if I subscribe to it through iTunes!

Hello all!
here's the problem:
I have made a link to an xml file that won't upload to iTunesU through the public site manager, and won't be validated on FeedValidator.org.  
Feedvalidator gives the message: server returned timed out
iTunesU Public Site Manager returns the message that it can't download the feed from the url.
HOWEVER,
- the url to the xml file works perfectly in all web browsers - it is recognized as a feed and a working link to the video comes up right away.
- I uploaded the xml and video file to a different website(not on the University's server) and iTunesU and feedvalidator recognize it as valid, and the content appeared on our iTunesU page straight away.
- I was able to successfully subscribe to the feed (on the University's server) and download the video file using iTunes on my computer.
I am thinking it has something to do with the permissions on our University's server, but the system admin and I have reached a dead end as far as solutions
I'm getting pretty frustrated figuring this out, can anybody help?!??!
It is greatly appreciated!

Your feed definitely validates, I’ve entered it by direct input on the w3cfeed validator and it’s fine - http://validator.w3.org/feed/#validate_by_input. That suggests it’s definitely a server configuration issue. Could the server be blocking ports required by the validator or iTunes? I presume the validator and iTunes both use http port 80, in which case, as the feed renders in a browser there shouldn't be a problem. Is the server definately available to external users/applications ie off campus?
Could it be a character encoding issue? I have downloaded your feed and opened it in notepad++ and it tells me the character encoding is 'UTF8 without BOM'. Not sure if it makes any difference but I use 'UFT8' for our feeds. I think servers can change character encoding depending on how they're set up which might account for the discrepancy.
This is not connected to your original question but you're not using the itunesu name space in the rss element at the top of your feed. As you're not using any itunesu specific elements in your feed I'm not sure if it's needed but just thought I'd mention it.
<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0"xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:itunesu="http://www.itunesu.com/feed">

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