No Playable Episodes Error

Hi,
A search on this topic came up either with solutions that didn't work or no answer.
I am helping someone publish a podcast, and it was accepted by iTunes Music Store a couple of weeks ago. Everything works fine if you go to Advanced/Subscribe to Podcast... in iTunes and paste in the feed (http://www.listeningin.org/?feed=rss2). But it doesn't work if you click subscribe in the iTunes Music Store page (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=172026561). I get the No Playable Episodes error.
Feed seems to be validating correctly:
(http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://www.listeningin.org/?feed=rss2)
Anyone have any idea what's going on?
Thanks!
Spencer
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I'm having the same problem -- my podcast was updating regularly until last week, and now it's stopped updating through iTunes. Other podcast catchers seem to be handling it okay, though. I validated my feed:
http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A//feeds.feedburner.com/Huckle- bug
And it shows that it's valid. When I try to manually feed it into iTunes, it subscribes okay but still says there's no playable episodes. I did a ping through
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and that worked too -- pinged fine.
Any ideas?
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