Podcasts cause shuffling to stop in playlists

The main playlist I listen two is made up of a mix of music and podcasts. I like to listen this way so I get a bit of music then a bit of talking, like listening to the radio. I also like to listen to this on shuffle, so it comes up in a random order.
However, when I listen to this playlist on my iPhone, I select the playlist, hit shuffle, ad all is fine, until it gets to a podcast, and then shuffling seems to stop.
Is there anything I can do to stop this happening?
In iTunes I've made sure "skip whilst shuffling" is set to "no" for al the podcasts, but this seems to make no difference.
Also, as a workaround I've tried to make the smart playlist ordered randomly, by setting a limit, and selecting the random criteria, but this doesn't seem to result in a particularly randomly ordered playlist on the iPhone.
(as an aside, I also wish smart playlists were live updating on the iPhone, my playlist is constructed to only contain unplayed podcasts; however, podcasts remain in the playlist even when they have been played)

I'm having a similar problem, as I like to listen to my podcasts in the same way and this method has been working well on my iPhone 3GS until now.
Since updating to OS4, my synced playlist won't play podcasts on shuffle. When it hits a podcast it either: 1.Plays the podcast, stops shuffling and continues playing at that point in the list, or 2.Doesn't play the podcast and automatically skips backs to the first song on the list.
I've also tried making a mixed music and podcast list on the iPhone, however this didn't play the podcasts at all.

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