Playing Podcasts in iTunes sequentially

I've been listening to Podcasts on iTunes for a long time now, but I occationally have a problem listening to podcasts sequentially on iTunes.
I usually go to the Library and select "Podcast" as the Genre, then I usually choose "All" for Artists and Albums. That way I get a list of all my Podcasts. Then I usually reverse sort on Time so I can listen to the shortest podcasts first. With the latest iTunes, I choose multiple speakers and then start at the top selected podcast and hit "Play". This usually just sequentially plays through the podcasts. When the one that is playing finishes it continues on to the next podcast in the list.
Occationally, for some reason I can't figure out, this doesn't work and iTunes only plays one podcast. I've tried the little icon on the bottom left (arrows pointing to each other in a circle) used to play over and over and repeat a selection, but that doesn't seem to do it.
Does anyone know what I can do to get this working again?
Mac mini & Power Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Mac mini & Power Mac G5

Solved by this Thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=584137
It turns out that I had used the checkmark to load different music on my iPod mini and my 60GB ipod. The checkmark is needed to play sequentially through the album. Rechecking all the songs allowed the music to play sequentially.
Thanks to Dave in the thread mentioned above for figuring this out for me.

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