Problems with unheard podcast playlists in iTunes 10.X

I listen to a lot of podcasts and, as such, I have a smart playlist for them called "unheard of" which selects out everything of:
*Type = podcast* and
*Play count < 1*
This has had issues over the years, but right now the problem is that periodically it stops populating. I get new podcasts, but they don't go into the list. This usually gets resolved if I restart iTunes, but that brings me to the next issue…
1. When I run into problems with iTunes and try to restart it, often it won't restart. The window goes away, but the dock icon indicates Application not responding. I've let this sit overnight sometimes, but the result is always the same — I must +force quit+ it. It feels like these two things are related.
2. When I run into problems with iTunes and try to restart it, often it won't restart. The window goes away, but the dock icon indicates Application not responding. I've let this sit overnight sometimes, but the result is always the same — I must force quit it. It feels like these two things are related.
On a related note, why is the default setting for podcasts to have *Skip when shuffling = yes*? There appears to be no way to change this default behaviour and this means I have to go in and select all my podcasts before I sync my iPhone and change this value. I don't even see to see any way to access this via AppleScript or I'd change it that way. The worst is that this seems an entirely arbitrary setting to begin with. What is the benefit?
Oh, and I'm running the latest of everything, including OS X 10.6.5 and iTunes 10.1.

This is still not resolved and I seem to find that if I put my machine to sleep and then wake it from sleep, the playlist problem appears and iTunes will hang (stops responding) if I try to shut it down. Can anyone help me?

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