PODCast updates

Hi,
I hope someone can help me with this. I publish a PODCast to users. I created a little script that allows me to upload the mp3 files for my feed. It then adds the feed to my RSS list. The block it adds looks like the example below:
<item>
<title>
Good Connections Vol32 No1 - Letter from Chris Cronje, President and CEO (4.92MByte)
</title>
<enclosure url="http://www.alpeng.com/upload/21738/ChrisLetter.mp3" length="5159813" type="audio/mp3"/>
−
<itunes:summary>
Good Connections Vol32 No1 - Letter from Chris Cronje, President and CEO
</itunes:summary>
<guid>http://www.alpeng.com/upload/21738/ChrisLetter.mp3</guid>
<link>http://www.alpeng.com/upload/21738/ChrisLetter.mp3</link>
−
<description>
Good Connections Vol32 No1 - Letter from Chris Cronje, President and CEO
</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 20:11:42 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
The issue is that if I get an update and create an updated MP3 an hour later and I upload it it then created the correct new time stamp "<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 20:11:42 GMT</pubDate>" it then would be 21:11:00 for example. However, my IPod does not recognize that this time stamp has changed and does not re-download the updated file.
What can I do in my feed to make the IPod recognize that this is a updated file that need to be downloaded again?
Same issue if with Videos and Images.
Is there maybe a tag to force a re-download on IPods that have an older time stamp?
I hope I make sense with this, if not please ask questions. I am very happy for any assistance I could get.
Best wishes,
thom

This has absolutely nothing to do with the iPod.
You should post over at the Podcasting forum.
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