Trying to submit podcast to iTunes, "difficulty downloading episodes"

Hi there... Getting really frustrated trying to submit my soundcloud podcasts to iTunes.
I'm using feedburner and this is my feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/alvarp
But I keep getting "We had difficulties downloading episodes from your feed."
The most frustrating thing is that I did get to the next step, but noticed a typo in the description, so I went back and started over on feedburner.. but then when I got back I got this!
I've been going through the threads here and I see people with similar problems that have to do with the format of the episodes and secure servers, but I can't see how that applies to my problem.
Please help!
Ragnar

The URL of the media file in your top episode is
http://feeds.feedburner.com/alvarp/http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/140877573- alvarpid-a-ttur-nr-4.mp3
This URL is obviously a nonsense as it has http:// in twice, and indeed it produces a '400' error (bad syntax).
If you remove the erronious first section:
http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/140877573-alvarpid-a-ttur-nr-4.mp3
you get a forced download. This will possibly work but it's inadvisable - you should provide a direct link to the mp3 file which when opened in Safari plays within safari, not downloads.

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