Podcasts won't play in iTunes

Hi folks,
There are two issues, one serious less so for the new version of iTunes 7.0 for XP.
The serious problem is that for reasons that are unclear, *no podcasts* will play! I've tried everything, but I am at a total loss. In the previous version, iTunes would just download stuff and I can play it, now, nothing. It acts as if there is nothing there. Is there something I need to do in iTunes that will allow me to play? Can I go back to a previous version?
The second issue is that in the previous version there was a tab called "entire library" where I could go in and delete played podcasts manually. Now, I can't do that and have to wait till the update takes it out OR even worse go into each org's podcast, click on the triangle and delete the old episodes. How can I get an entire library tab back onto the

well, since I stumped the iTunes people on my problem, I'd still like an answer to my second question-- in the last version of iTunes I was able to easily delete old podcasts from the library. How can I do that now???

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