Trouble importing downloaded podcasts

I have recently re-installed Windows on my system and while I backed up my music library I neglected to back up my iTunes library file.
There are many podcasts in my music library but I'm having trouble viewing them properly in iTunes.
After re-importing my old music library into iTunes, only a couple of the old podcasts appear in the Podcast directory. A few of the podcasts appear in the Music Library, but most of them don't appear in either. I can access these "missing" podcasts by setting up a smart playlist with Genre=Podcast, but this also has problems, for example if I wanted to delete a file from the library it can't be done in a playlist view.
I would like all of my already-downloaded podcasts to appear in the Podcast directory.
It would be good if we could tell iTunes that a podcast it thinks hasn't been downloaded can be found on the hard drive.
This would also be useful on those occasions (eg on dialup) where a podcast cannot be downloaded by iTunes but can be downloaded by dedicated download software. And like a similar thread on this forum, for adding older podcasts no longer in the RSS feed for a podcast channel.
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I was having a similar issue with podcast as well. And for a fix, when i plug in the Ipod to my computer, i just simply re-boot the Ipod and it seems to correct the error intill i have to resnyc it.

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