Podcast not deleting

Hi,
my podcasts is not syncing correctly...
I set it to "keep all unplayed episodes" on the itunes setting
and I set "sync all unplayed episodes" on the ipod
Now I think with itunes 6... it should delete all the podcast that has been played and keep all the unplayed ones and sync it to the ipod...
But now with itunes 7... it always keep all the podcast even though it has been played (no blue dots)
Secondly, I just notice... I went into podcast library there is no podcast,because I delete all that has been played...
But then I made a smart playlist with "my rating is 0 stars" rule... guess what... i can see about 60 something podcasts that I deleted a long time ago... And it still can be played... now... I can't find these in music, video, or podcast library... how am I suppose to delete these files? The Only thing I can do is to uncheck them and delete them directly from the folder/hardrive... As it turns out it is still in my ipod...
so my questions are
1 how to sync my podcast and automatically delete all played podcast?
2 how do I delete these podcast that I can't find in the library? the only way for me to find these "hidden" podcasts is by using smart playlist... but i can't delete from smart playlist...
Now in the smart playlist, it still show these "hidden" podcast, it show the ! sign, but i can't delete them...
thanks

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