Podcast play problems: 3G MUCH different than 2G

Question

I'm having many problems with my 3G nano:
1. Create a playlist (not a smart playlist) and fill it with podcasts. Sync that playlist to the nano by choosing it in the Music tab on iTunes. The nano will show that some of its space is taken up, but you won't be able to play the podcasts on the nano. (This could easily be done on the 2G.)
Why is this important? Say you want to create a list of podcast episodes from different podcast feeds and you want to play it in a particular order. I do this frequently when planning to go to the gym or drive and when I don't want to have to choose each episode separately.
It is also important because automatically loading just certain podcasts on an iPod (three episodes of one podcast feed, all of your library of eighty podcasts from another feed) requires this level of loading a playlist since iTunes doesn't let you choose the number of episodes to load independently for each feed. (I know you can tell iTunes to only load checked episodes, but what if you have multiple iPods and want to load different versions on each iPod?)
2. Load a bunch of podcasts on your nano. Using the on-the-go playlist feature, hold the center button down on a random set of episodes to build an on-the-go playlist. Where is the playlist? The next time you sync the nano, it will be visible in iTunes, but you won't be able to find it anywhere on the nano.
3. Play just one podcast episode at a time. Any time you go to play a podcast episode, the nano will always play the next episode as well. (I partially solved this by realizing that placing the nano into shuffle mode will prevent this. That's nice. However, many times I want to listen to podcasts in chronological order rather than reverse-chronological order, and the nano won't do that without a playlist, but see #s 1 and 2 above.)
Help!
Thanks.

Answer 1

I'm having many problems with my 3G nano:
1. Create a playlist (not a smart playlist) and fill it with podcasts. Sync that playlist to the nano by choosing it in the Music tab on iTunes. The nano will show that some of its space is taken up, but you won't be able to play the podcasts on the nano. (This could easily be done on the 2G.)
Why is this important? Say you want to create a list of podcast episodes from different podcast feeds and you want to play it in a particular order. I do this frequently when planning to go to the gym or drive and when I don't want to have to choose each episode separately.
It is also important because automatically loading just certain podcasts on an iPod (three episodes of one podcast feed, all of your library of eighty podcasts from another feed) requires this level of loading a playlist since iTunes doesn't let you choose the number of episodes to load independently for each feed. (I know you can tell iTunes to only load checked episodes, but what if you have multiple iPods and want to load different versions on each iPod?)
2. Load a bunch of podcasts on your nano. Using the on-the-go playlist feature, hold the center button down on a random set of episodes to build an on-the-go playlist. Where is the playlist? The next time you sync the nano, it will be visible in iTunes, but you won't be able to find it anywhere on the nano.
3. Play just one podcast episode at a time. Any time you go to play a podcast episode, the nano will always play the next episode as well. (I partially solved this by realizing that placing the nano into shuffle mode will prevent this. That's nice. However, many times I want to listen to podcasts in chronological order rather than reverse-chronological order, and the nano won't do that without a playlist, but see #s 1 and 2 above.)
Help!
Thanks.