Podcast descriptions not showing up on iPhone

I've found it annoying that podcasts don't show their program description on my iPhone. So, I wrote a little AppleScript to go through and update the podcast's "lyrics" to be the description. That way, when playing the podcast on my iPhone, the description (stored in the "lyrics" field) are shown on my iPhone screen. If you want to use this, open up the AppleScript editor, paste this code, and save the resulting script in the folder "~/Library/iTunes/Script". Your new script should appear in the script menu right in iTunes. When you run it, it will update the podcasts downloaded in iTunes so the description will appear on my iPhone screen. Hope others find this useful. My thanks to Thabo Da Husky for the idea. Here's the code:
tell application "iTunes"
    repeat with podTrack in tracks of user playlist "Podcasts"
        if ((get lyrics of podTrack) = "") then
            set lyrics of podTrack to (get description of podTrack)
        end if
    end repeat
end tell

Hmm. Well, yes, now I see the scripts icon at the top of my iTunes screen (I had named the folder Script; once I added the "s" to the end, the Scripts icon showed up). But for some reason the script is not working. Not only is the description not pasting into the lyrics field, but the description no longer shows up on the iTunes listing. I can see the description when I control-click on the file and look at "Show description", but not in the iTunes listing on my Mac or in the lyrics field on the Mac or the iPhone. I just added some new podcast episodes, and before even running the script, they came over to iTunes without the description showing up. Selecting them and running the script has no effect. Any idea what has happened?
(And I do appreciate you taking the time to help me on this.)

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