Podcasts are completely broken suddenly

I noticed some album art I needed to fix on my iPhone so I fixed it in iTunes and plugged the iPhone into my computer (which does not sync automatically). Due to negative experiences in the past with the way iTunes and iPhone fight over podcasts, I UNCHECKED the box in iTunes enabling podcasts syncs. I clicked Apply in iTunes and a sync immediately began, which proceeded to copy all of the podcasts from my iPhone into iTunes, and then deleted all of those podcasts from my iPhone. Which is exactly what I didn't want to happen.
Frustrated at the thought of redownloading all of my podcasts over the iTunes Mobile Store, I re-enabled podcast syncs in iTunes, and clicked Apply which made iTunes copy all of those podcasts back to the iPhone.
Except now they won't play, and most of them have missing album art now. I can tap on any of them and the screen will slide to the left and then instantly back to the right showing me the podcast list again. I can download podcasts from the iTunes Mobile Store but they never show up in my podcast list. If I delete a podcast (or all of them, which I've done), then force the iPod app closed by holding down the home button, then open up the iPod app again, the podcasts all magically reappear as if I hadn't just deleted them 20 seconds prior.
So I can't listen to any podcasts, I can't download any podcasts, I can't delete any podcasts, nothing. What in the world can I do to fix this aside from wiping the iPhone completely? The computer I sync with is my work PC so I don't have that ability at the moment but I would welcome suggestions on what to do when I get to work tomorrow morning. Thanks for taking the time to read all this and thanks in advance for any help
Edit: Oh and ironically this whole fiasco has turned about half of my album art covers into completely black squares. The exact opposite of why I started this journey
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bump, problem still persists.

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