Podcasting simply with iWeb problems

Hi. I have 3 podcast episodes on my iWeb/Mobile Me website. I have not submitted to iTunes. I have Apples reference to podcasting and submitting to iTunes and I plan to study and fully learn it, when my schedule permits, then maintain my custom xml in a custom location and then submit to iTunes.
In the meantime, I am having problems with people simply subscribing from my podcast page.
I send my episodes directly to iWeb from GarageBand. I submit all to Mobile Me. When someone subscribes directly from the page... iTunes downloads the episodes initially, but later, like the next day, iTunes says "there is a problem with the feed" and gives the "!". However, a lot of the time I can retry later and it will find the feed fine... Then later again it won't.
I know when I get to writing my own xml and hosting it I can customize everything as needed but I simply havent had time to dive into that yet.
I'm hoping in the meantime I have people successfully subscribe with what i send straight out of iWeb.
Can anyone think of what might be causing this problem of where iTunes can sometimes find the feed and other times not.
www.mattplay.com "The Solar Mix" is the podcast page.
Thanks for your time and help!

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