Podcasts won't sync anymore

Hi there,
I've been happily using a smart playlist that transferred my podcasts with playcount = 0 onto my iPod nano 4GB (first generation). Worked just great for a year or so.
Now I've updated to iTunes 7.0.2 and that also gave me software version 1.3 on the iPod. From there on, the smart playlist is not any longer correctly transferred to my iPod.
On the computer my playlist has some 20 items. When it gets synched on the iPod only two of them are visible. I then tried to use the podcasts sync option in iTunes, disabled an enabled it a couple of times as it was suggested here in the forum, but didn't work. Tried a manual playlist... no success. Restored my iPod completely - no gain from that.
Any ideas what's wrong?
Cheers,
Andreas
Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1M   Windows XP Pro  

I have same problem as THE_RAT and tried same solutions. I am using new MacBook, recently pushed TV shows, Videos, fro the ITunes store. Some ran once or twice on IPod, but will now NOT transfer to iPod.
So it is not Windows vs MAC problem or purchased vs. free site podcasts
Thanks all, any ideas.

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