Syncing Video podcasts, watched episodes coming up as new?

Hi all, have the new iphone 3g and have one very annoying problem. I've done a search and can't find any solutions. Is this a known problem from apple?
I subscribe to several video podcasts. I watch them on my iphone and then after doing a sync, they show back up on my iphone as unwatched. This is really annoying as when I got to watch some again I have to go through all these episodes I've already watched.
I've tried different settings in the podcast sync settings as "all new" or "3 most recent new" but still the source of the problem seems to be itunes will mark these watched episoded as unwatched.
Can anyone help me? I'm running latest version of Itunes and Iphone firmware.

Anyone know how I can fix this? Its driving me mad!

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