Video Podcast problem/question

Hey gang.
Just got my new 5'th gen iPod - very cool
Although I'm having some problems with the video Podcasts - after downloading i.e. the "Photoshop TV Episode 3" to my computer, and run an "Update iPod", I can't find the movie in either 'Video->Movies', 'Video->Video Podcasts' or 'Video->Music Videos'.
I finally found it under 'Video Playlists'->'Recently Added'.
It has 'Podcast' set at Genre in iTunes, and 'Options->Video Kind' is dimmed out (.m4v file)
Question is - how on earth do I get to figure under 'Video->Video Podcasts' or at least 'Video->Movies'?!?!?
Thanks

Thanks for the response!
I am assuming that if one podcast plays (in a series), they should all play (in that series). In some cases there are three or four installments of something that I would like to view, and sometimes two show up, but not all of them. When I go into 'manual' mode, sometimes it gets weird and says that 'the drive is locked'...
Also, I have put files of my own into iTunes, and it has told me that those files are indeed not compatible and recompressed them. So I would hope if the files were not compatible it would tell me, and not just copy them over to the device and not play them.
Thanks for the response!
David

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