The case of the undeleteable podcasts

I have an iPhone (2.2.1) 3G, 16GB. I synced about 12GB of podcasts to it (lots of Deep Blue/Solarstone if anyone's interested ).
Later I decided I didn't want all of those podcasts on my phone. I went into iTunes and told it to not sync them, then I synced my phone.
Now the iPod app on my phone is showing no podcasts, and iTunes shows no podcasts synced, but I still have the 12GB of space used on my phone and I can't get rid of them.
How do I get my space back?

One thing that might help out.
If itunes is showing a lot of space as other, something has become corrupted and you might need to restore.
Here are a couple of articles from the apple support website that might help out.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1737
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275
You might need to reset and or restore the iphone to resolve any software issues.
Hope this helps.

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I have been experiencing the same problem, and unfortunately sanfranciscotx's suggestion doesn't address or resolve the issue.
iTunes is behaving inconsistently. There are podcasts for which I have selected the "Download All" option and it only downloads new podcasts that have been released since the last time it was checked, regardless of how many podcasts were released in that time, without downloading old podcasts.
In another case, the "Download All" option is selected, and it works as I would expect (the above scenario) for some time, but then one week it will start downloading a bunch of older podcasts as the original poster has mentioned.
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After a couple of days, I'm noticing that the repeat(ing) offenders have more than 10 episodes, and seem to keep repeating them every time I sync.
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Hi,
I have searched and could not find the answer to this problem.
Anyway, I have a 5th gen iPod and am running it on a Mac with the latest iTunes. On the iPod options pane, I have selected to update only the selected Podcasts. I am leaving the podcasts that I do not want on my iPod (but want to keep on my Mac) unselected.
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or how to create a playlist of podcasts?
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UNION ALL
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UNION ALL
SELECT 200 type, 6 no FROM dual
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200     21
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4- Reinstall Podcasts app
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7- It worked for me!
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