Q about Automatically Downloading Podcasts

Hi. I have an Imac running OS X 10.5.2. I also have the latest version
of Itunes, 7.6.2.
I just discovered podcasts tonight and I subscribed to a few of them. I
then went to Itunes Preferences and to the Podcasts section to set
Itunes to look for new episodes on a daily basis.
My problem is that Itunes doesn't seem to let me choose a specific time
for downloading the daily podcasts. I would like to set Itunes so that
it downloads the podcasts early in the morning, around 2AM or 3AM, when
I'm asleep and not using my computer.
However, when I select the "Every day' from the "Check for new
episodes", it shows that the next time it will check for new episodes is
"Tomorrow, 9:50 PM." I don't know how it's picking 9:50PM as the time
to checking podcasts. Like I said, I'd like to change the time to 2AM
or 3AM. I browsed through the Itunes Help and I couldn't find an answer
to my question.
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks

The 'daily' check always means 24 hours from that last time iTunes checked for podcasts. In other words, if you did a manual check at 2 a.m. then iTunes would perform the next automated check at 2 a.m. the next day.

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