Podcasts corrupted after sync?

I've been having a problem where my iPhone podcasts seem to be corrupted in some way after I sync my phone. When I look at my list of podcasts, many of them don't display their running time, and can't be fast-forwarded/rewound when they're being played back. Instead of a time, the following is displayed: "--:--" (where it would normally be something like "45:23".
Note that when I download a podcast directly on the iPhone and DON'T sync, everything behaves as usual. I've experienced this issue across multiple versions of iTunes, and even between iPhone OS 3 and iOS4. Any suggestions/workarounds?

Same problem here. When syncing my iPhone 3GS with iTunes on my PC Win Vista 32-bit, the sync completes, but nothing changes on my phone-iPod.
However, when downloading directly to my phone not using my PC-iTunes, everything is fine until I sync again - after syncing my iPod is empty again.
No error messages whatsoever. Sometimes it says that some Podcasts are corrupted, but sometimes again they are ok?!
iTunes diagnostics says everything is ok.
I don´t get anything into my iPod, not even music.
Grateful for any help ... out there?
Yours,
Kaj Ekman
Finland

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