Podcasts Don't Get Added to Podcast List and Don't Delete Off of Phone

I have an iPhone 3G 16GB and I am having a big problem with Podcasts.
Since I am working from two locations in my iTunes called "Podcasts", let me define them up front. The "Podcast" icon that appears in my main iTunes Library I will call "Podcasts iTunes". The "Podcast" icon that appears when you flip down the twirly arrow next to my iPhone under the Device listings I will call "Podcasts iPhone".
Sometimes I take a group of Podcasts (from a variety of Podcast feeds) from my "Podcasts iTunes" listings and drag them onto the "Podcasts iPhone" icon. But not all of them will actually transfer over. To force all of them to copy to my iPhone, I have created a Playlist called "IP Pods". Once I drag these Podcasts there, they copy over just fine. (some of them will even be listed under the "Podcasts iPhone" icon. But lets assume for now that none of them are "making the list") None of them are showing up under the Music listing for my iPhone. They only appear in the "IP Pods" playlist.
Now, if I try to delete any of these files, I get an even bigger problem. They will delete off of my "IP Pods" playlist just fine, but they don't seem to be actually deleted from the iPhone. After just a month, I have almost a full Gigabyte discrepancy between the amount of audio that my iPhone says it has by looking under Summary tab for my iPhone and the amount of audio that I see when clicking on the Music listing for my iPhone (under Devices).
So how can I get these files deleted? They aren't showing up as Podcasts or as Music on my iPhone, only in the playlist.
Are they still there and eating up this 1GB of space? Yes. I am sure of this. Let's say I had two shows for a Podcast called "Week 4" and "Week 5", these being a Podcast that, like above, I can only copy to and see in my "IP Pods" playlist. Then I delete them. Then I copy over "Week 6" to my "IP Pods" playlist and play back the show. If I click the little icon in the upper right hand corner of my iPhone screen, I can see "Week 4", "Week 5" and "Week 6" listed. I can even tap on and listen to "Week 4" and "Week 5"--even though they no longer show up in my "IP Pods" playlist, or in the iPhone Music tab (listed under Devices in my iTunes), or in the "Podcasts iPhone" listings.
This is very frustrating and I want my 1GB of space back. Haaaaalp!
Thank you.

Are you using Smart Playlists? I have never dragged and dropped podcasts to the iPhone device and as the Podcasts tab of the iPhone device in iTunes does not work for me (It syncs all podcasts even if I state just 1 most recent) I have managed to find a workaround to my problem.
First try unticking the playlist containing the podcasts on the Music tab of the iPhone device and then sync it with your iPhone. It should remove the 1GB of podcast on your iPhone.
If not, try the following, which has helped me control which podcasts get synced with my iPhone -
1. Untick sync checkboxes on the Podcasts/Music/Video/Ringtones/Photos tabs of the iPhone device in iTunes (NOT applications)
2. Sync the iPhone and it should remove all items apart from your applications. Therefore Audio, Photos and Video should say 0 GB and Other will be xxMB as those are your applications. If Audio/Video still shows 1GB then you will have to restore as 'New Phone' to get that 1GB back as there is no disk access with the iPhone. Once you have got your memory back try the following -
3. Create a Smart Playlist for all your podcasts (File -> New Smart Playlist and select Podcast and is true in the drop-down lists)
4. Tick the options "Sync only checked songs and videos" on the Summary tab of the iPhone device in iTunes.
5. Tick sync checkboxes on the Music/Video/Ringtones/Photos tabs of the iPhone device in iTunes
6. On Music tab, select "Selected Playlists" radio button and tick the Podcast Smart Playlist as well as any other playlist that you want to sync to your iPhone
7. Sync the iPhone and you should see all Podcasts that are in the Smart Playlist.
- To remove podcasts from the iPhone, untick podcasts in the Smart Playlist in iTunes and then sync the iPhone
- Any new downloaded podcasts should appear in the Smart Playlist and should be automatically synced. So it is a manual process o
I think the problem all stems from deleting Video podcast content directly from the iPhone (Swipe left to right on title of video) which causes problems for iTunes. You can delete video podcasts directly from the phone (Videos) but not audio podcasts (Podcasts) as video podcasts get listed under both views (Another bug!??)
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