Podcasts won't auto delete during update

I want my podcasts to automatically delete after I've listened to them. I have the ipod set on auto update songs and podcasts and to "keep all unplayed episodes." The podcasts just keep stacking up until I have to delete the whole library and start over.
I built a playlist for all played podcasts (play count greater than zero) but it won't let me even manually delete from the playlist.
How do I do this.
Thanks / Kozmo

Having exactly the same problem. I've posted this on a few Apple related forums already - although admittedly not this one - but no answers yet. I get the feeling that other people are getting this to work so it's not a Podcast app bug.
I'm deleting listened to podcasts manually by swiping right on the podcast once I've listened to it.
I don't understand what I might not be doing - I have the podcast subscribed to and auto-delete is switched on and set to keep unplayed episodes only.
I've tried leaving some for a while in case there's a 'schedule' of some sort for when these listened-to podcasts get deleted but nothing has happened so far..and that's after eight weeks!

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Wasn't sure which forum was best for this but just wanted to voice my frustration with Itunes 7.7 and the fact that my podcasts no longer "Auto-Delete" after being played. I checked my settings for each podcast and they are still set to "AUto-Delete". If anyone has any suggestions, please respond.
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I've noticed this too.
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