Trouble submitting a podcast to iTunes

Hello,
I have had trouble with my podcast before and therefore deleted it when I couldn't wrap my head around the issue.
That podcast was related to http://feeds.feedburner.com/spelsoffansemiretro and now I am trying to submit the RSS-link http://feeds.feedburner.com/semiretro instead. But then I recieve an error message. iTunes says that this link has already been submitted.
How can I get around this?
Thanks in advance,
Andreas Linder
spelsoffan.se

You've fallen over a bug in the automated part of the submissions process which recognizes when a podcast has previously been submitted, but not when it's been rejected or removed.
The workaround is to change the title slightly, then it will look like a new podcast. You can change the title back once it's been accepted provided that doing so doesn't change the feed filename and hence the URL.

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