Podcasts are songs????

Hi everyone, newbie here I just bought a 30GB iPod yesterday, and followed all the instructions on how to sync it, etc and it works fine, but my question is, when I did that it lists all my podcasts under songs as well as under podcasts on my iPod. Is this normal? And is there a way to move them off the songs list and just leave them under podcasts?? Sorry for such a dumb question, but I want to make sure I'm using it correctly...
Thanks in advance for all your help!!!

Hi Kozmo,
I have a similar experience with my nano. I find that podcasts made in Garage Band appear as songs, not podcasts. Unfortunately, I have not determined how to fix this and have things registered properly. It is especially annoying as I want access to the text portion of file which is not available when the file is a song.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

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I have not seen this precise issue addressed anywhere. I don’t know if it’s an iTunes or an iPod problem:
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this, after normal behavior for more than a year since purchase of the iPod.
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- Only podcasts are affected.
- This concerns an iPod nano 6th gen. and iTunes 11.0.2 (26) on System 10.6.8
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I ultimately reset the iPod and manually resynced all the podcasts I currently had on iTunes. That worked, though I had to painstakingly add in all the other content deleted by the reset.
So: after that reset and manual sync, all podcasts and episodes on the iPod were visible to iTunes and I was able to delete the podcast and its — now 18 — episodes I’d wanted to get rid of to begin with. But the next time I connected the iPod, only 8 podcast episodes out of 21 episodes total existing on the iPod were visible to iTunes. These are different podcasts; I’d deleted the original “invisible” ones.
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