Smart Playlists Not Working With Podcasts

I have a smart playlist set up in iTunes that has the following criteria:
Media Kind is Podcast
Play Count is 0
This groups all of my new podcasts into one playlist that I can just play straight through. When I upgraded to iTunes 9 and updated my iPhone to OS 3.1, my playlists that contain podcasts are no longer transferred to my iPhone. Any ideas?

Okay, here's an irritating workaround: select all the podcasts (I selected just the ones in my "unplayed podcast" smart playlist), Get Info, and change "Media Type" to "Music" (or anything but "Podcast"). Sync with the iPod. On my phone, the podcast episodes now appear in their playlists, but they no longer appear in the "Podcast" section of the phone. I guess they have to be in one-or-the-other. Annoying. I don't use the "Podcast" section much anyway. I hope they fix this stupid change in the software; I'll hate having to change the media type every time I get new podcasts.
Oh, my smart playlists used to find the podcasts by finding "media type = podcast" but I changed that to "genre = podcast" which seems to work. This is just a work-around though, and I think the problem should remain "unsolved" until they fix it.

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