Podcasts Lock my IPOD - Very Strange

This i sstrange. I have downloaded subscribed podcasts via itunes. If I listen to a podcast and then the ipod switches itself off, I have to do a reset to get the ipod to work again? However if I listen to music and the ipod switches off I can switch it on again no problem?
Anybody else got this issue, or am I doing something wrong?

I seem to be seeing the same issue with my 20GB; listening to Podcast on the way to work, pause and then turn off iPod. Come back at end of day and iPod won't come back on. Spoke with Apple support, they suggested I do a "restore", which blows away all the content on the iPod. Tried that last night; will see if it helps. I figured this was some kind of hardware issue with my iPod, but sounds like it may not be. In my case, the Podcast I seem to be having problems with is enhanced (eMacCast). I'm tempted to just subscribe to the non-enhanced version and see if that fixes it. I wonder if this issue is seen with non-enhanced Podcasts?
BTW, does anyone think this is something Apple will eventually provide a fix for on the 4G models? My concern is whether they are still working on bugs related to the older iPods or whether we are SOL since they are not selling the 4G iPods any more.
Thanks,
Ron

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I'm fairly new to the whole iTunes/iPod thingy, so this question might sound stupid, but what I wanna do is the following:
I've downloaded various podcast episodes of different podcasts to my hard drive. For some podcasts, I want to begin with the first episode and catch up with everything, and so I also downloaded those.
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