This American Life in itunes

Does anyone have any idea how to correct the following two problems with this program?
1. This American Life downloads as "music" and not as podcast. This happens when I buy a past program from itunes.
2. The This American Life podcast doesn't update automatically on a weekly basis as it should.
I started having this two problems when the program switched from being available (to buy) at audible.com to being a free podcast at itunes. I hope someone has an answer. Thank you. ia

I have this problem too - podcasts will randomly disappear.  And I have 'delete played episodes' turned off, and it makes little difference, it still tends to delete played episodes about half the time when you sync the ipod - its as if it periodically forgets that I've told it not to do that.
Also, not only does it sometimes delete played episodes, obliging me to redownload them, when I look at the directory in windows I often find podcasts still there which have mysteriously vanished from iTunes's library, even though the file itself still exists in the podcasts folder.
The whole way podcasts are handled seems to be bug-ridden and also very confusing (with the umpteen different ways of displaying them - and I still don't quite get what 'save podcasts' means, given they are already 'saved' unless you delete them or tell it to delete them after playing)

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