Played podcasts coming up as unplayed

Hi, i have a number of podcasts all from the same person. I have listened to them all, they are all marked as played and have a play count of 1.
I have my ipod to sync only unplayed episodes, 18 of them are coming up fine, but 2 are showing up on the ipod even though they are marked as played.
I dont want to change my ipod settings, does anyone know how to correct this error? I have tried deleting and redownloading them but they are still coming up on the ipod even thought they have been played.

Anyone know how I can fix this? Its driving me mad!

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Is anyone experiencing the same issue as me, using Podcasts on a iPod Touch with latest software update.
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