On-the-go for podcasts? and "last played" toggled off?

Why in the world can't I use the ON THE GO feature for podcasts? And when I hook up my iTouch 1st gen. to my G4, the "last played" column seems to be toggled off, can't seem to turn it on... makes weeding already listened to podcasts very frustrating... Tim

I have a 1st gen iPod Touch and I just added podcast entries to my on-the-go playlist. I go into Playlist -> On-the-Go and when I am ready to add, I hit the podcasts icon and select the episodes I want to add to my playlist.
As for the "Last Played" column, I tend to use "Play Count" myself, it is 0 when they have not been played, and >0 if it has...

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