Podcast playlist no longer works

I just synced my ipod nano, and my podcast playlist no longer works. This seems to be due to an upgrade to iTunes 9. It seems to only want to deal with music files in playlists, not podcasts. What am I doing wrong?

Found an answer in the following thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2152465&start=0&tstart=30

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