Unable to delete songs out of my IPOD

I am hoping someone can figure this out.
I downloaded some podcasts awhile back and now that I've listened I want to delete them out of my Ipod. When I connect to Itunes I am unable to even see/find these podcasts. It is as if they do not exist. When I disconnect again, I can find them in various places in my Ipod so they are still in there.
There must be some way to delete them but I am at a loss trying to figure it out since I can't even see them when I connect to Itunes. I am already set to manually manage my data, I have tried to search for them, I have deleted playlists where they may have been and none of this has gotten rid of them. Maybe I did something wrong when dragging these into my Ipod after initially downloading them. I am hoping I don't have to be stuck with them wasting the memory forever since there are quite a few.
Hopefully someone can help & figure out what I can do to get rid of them.
Thanks!
Windows XP

yes itunes 7...
previously it was on the podcast section... but somehow either it was deleted or something, i can't find them in the podcast section... not in music, movies etc.... the only place i could find them is in my smart playlist... I can't delete these podcast from smart playlist...
So what i did is, i have to go to my Library in my PC hard drive and manually delete these files... then go back to the smart playlist and see or try to make these files to have exclamation point in front of them... then sync my ipod and then these files would be deleted from my ipod... after syncing, I could see that the free storage of my ipod increase... because the podcasts have been deleted...
I lost about 1gb because of this... I didn't even know that these podcasts were in my ipod... I found out about this by accident, I made a smart playlist and suddenly I saw some very old video podcasts in the playlist... can't be found anywhere, only in the smart playlist... Even until now the file name is still in the playlist, but since i delete the actual files from my HDD, it has the exclamation point !!! in front of them, I just cant delete these... it's just weird...

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