Serious issues with Podcasts & URLs

Hi there,
I'm having some pretty baffling issues as of late. I decided to hook my podcast into feedburner, and that process has proven to be quite easy. Even redirecting iTunes to that URL was fine. But all of a sudden, iTunes has stopped working and cannot connect to feeds or anything of the sort.
The original XML file iTunes used was "http://wearela.me/lamecast.xml". This was replaced with "http://wearela.me/podcasts.xml". But the replacement URL is only being pointed to by Feedburner.
From there, there's a 301 redirect on my site from the original "lamecast.xml" to the new Feedburner URL "http://feeds.feedburner.com/WeAreLame". I also kept the original "lamecast.xml" and did a:
<itunes:new-feed-url>http://feeds.feedburner.com/WeAreLame</itunes:new-feed-url>
Just to be safe. However, the 301 redirect should alleviate the need for this.
All of this was working JUST FINE until today. Today, iTunes decided it wanted nothing to do with any of this and started throwing errors at me and other subscribers.
I've seen two errors so far. The first is the oddest. "There was a problem downloading "The Lamecast from WeAreLa.me". Then it says (and this is the weirdest part) "The URL "http://wearela.mefeed://feeds.feedburner.com/WeAreLame?format=xml" could not be found on this server.
The thing is, that's NOT a legitimate URL! How iTunes even managed to smush URLs together is beyond me. Nowhere in my code do I even point to the base "wearela.me" url for the podcast. And it's tacking on a completely different URL to it.
So this is my conundrum. I am completely in the dark and have no idea what to do from here. My feeds validate 100% and everything should work. iTunes has just decided it won't.
Can anyone help me?

I've seen this bizzarre combining of URLs before, but I have no idea what causes it; perhaps it's a bug in the Store, but it certainly doesn't make any sense. Unfortunately it means that the standard methods for redirecting a feed won't work as there can be no such URL for you to put a feed with a redirect tag in.
Given this I'm afraid you have only two options. The first is to abandon the old feed altogether. You should get the old podcast removed from the Store - instructions here - and submit your new feed as an entirely new podcast. You will probably need to make a small change in the title, as a bug in the Store software may tell you that the podcast has already been submitted: and of course you will lose any subscribers or comments.
The other option is somewhat uncertain. iTunes Support is notoriously unhelpful, often sending back form answers which often don't deal with the actual problem, or referring the questioner to theDiscussions Forum: however it has been known for someone to persuade Support to shift their podcast to a new URL, so it's worth trying. It's probably just a matter of luck you you get. To contact iTunes Support, go to http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ - click on 'Other iTunes Store Features' in the list and then on 'Podcasts'.

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