Podcasts don't download

Hi! I have been trying to update some of my podcasts for several days with the latest version of iTunes, and it constantly drops out before download is completed... It reads error 502 or error 9006. I can't figure out what is wrong. Especially that it does it fine for some of my other podcasts, which is really puzzling...
Thanks for any help!

I am having what appears to be the same problem: I pick a podcast to download from the iPhone and it appears to download(although it downloads very quickly--I am on Wifi). The downloaded podcast shows up in the list of podcasts in the iPod application/part of the phone but when I play it it essentially shows up as an empty file as iPod plays a couple of seconds of nothing and then skips to the next podcast in the queue.
So it seems that it is downloading an extremely small file, something that can't be large enough to be a whole podcast. So when I try and play this tiny file it plays the file and then skips to a "real" file(one that is of normal size.

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http://i.imgur.com/vy33H9y.png
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