Tried to go back to manually managing podcasts- now they won't transfer!

Hey folks,
I manually managed all my iTunes podcasts for the longest time without any problem, and last week, decided to try out auto-sync because I would routinely leave the house and forget to transfer the newest editions of my favorite podcasts to my iPod.
After realizing I liked the old way better, I decided to go under the "Podcast" tab of my iPod and uncheck "sync podcasts", assuming that this would let me go back to manually managing them. However, when I try to manually drag and drop my podcasts into my iPod, they don't show up.
All podcasts worked fine before and are all in the right format, being subscribed to in the official iTunes store.
Any suggestions? Thanks a bunch.

Pretty sure if you want to manually manage podcasts, you need to set your entire ipod to manually manage music and videos. Just checking or unchecking podcast syncing will only turn podcast syncing completely on or off, and if its set to sync it will obey the rules set up for syncing on the podcast tab. Bottom line, if your ipod is set to automatically sync, you can't manually manage any of it's content.

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