Problem with podcasts in playlists

I have a smart playlist set that plays only stuff put on my ipod that day - back in the old days (a couple of weeks ago) I used to be able to listen to music, and newly downloaded podcasts, all from the same playlist. Now, although everything added shows up in the playlist, when I highlight the playlist and click play, no podcasts play. I have to go in and choose each one individually, thus I have to keep selecting specific podcasts - they don't automatically play. The same is true when I click play on the built in "podcasts" playlist - nothing happens. I am assuming this is a consequence of the buggy new firmware, but I'm hoping someone has the same issue and/or workaround.
Thanks for your time,
-Chris
5g 80 gig video Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Yeah, I was just trying to figure out this problem as well. I'm a late software adopter, and this problem never came up.
Me, I use smart playlists and on-the-go playlists all the time to play podcasts and music, and this is a problem that they've fixed that, in fact, never was a problem before. In fact, if I now have to go into my podcasts and decheck EACH FILE's "skip during shuffle" toggle, it's going to be particularly more work- I'm quite unhappy about it.
Somehow, I don't recall a single podcast coming up in shuffle before- and if it did, it certainly wasn't a bother to simply skip it. I hate reverting to 1.1- I love every other feature in 1.2. But this playlist shuffle is ridiculous- and utterly pointless.
Anybody else find anything else that can be done about it?

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We're receiving a number of reports from people that our podcasts play for a minute or so and then loop back to the beginning. We're getting the report from multiple users, for different podcast episodes and occurring at different times within each episode.
We've seen it happen once or twice ourselves, but it is very difficult to reproduce. Unfortunately we've received enough complaints that I know this is a real problem that a lot of people are having. They're even leaving negative comments for us in the iTunes store because of it.
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Content-Length: 101
Content-Range: bytes 200-300/46077596
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* CBS News Podcast - Eye To Eye - MPEG audio file - 64 kbps - 22.050 kHz - Encoded with Unknown
* NBC News - Meet the Press - MPEG audio file - 32 kbps - 22.050 kHz - Encoded with Unknown
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I will try that and report back...
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