Weblog & podcasting

I setup a 10.4 server to do some podcasting. The server is up, weblog enabled. I am able to upload a podcast to the server to our test account. I can go to the server and download the podcast, what I can't do is subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or manually subcribe to it.
From the weblog page, I do NOT have the RSS|Podcast button, just the ATOM and RSS 1.0 and 2.0 buttons. Why don't I have the RSS|Podcast button, or is the doc I'm looking at old?
Manually subscribe. In the doc it says my link will be:
itpc://<server>/weblog/<shortname>/?flavor=rss2
Putting that into iTunes and iTunes complains that it's not the right format.
What I do get to go in OK is:
http://itpc:<server>:16080/weblog/<shortname>/?flavor=rss2
When I go to pull the podcast I get:
"There was a problem downloading..." "The network connection could not be made"
When I am trying this, I am internal to our network and podcast server.
Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thx - Steve
G5 Dual 1.8   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Been there! very frustrating too! But, hopefully this helps:
You'll have to do two things, most likely:
1. Go in and turn off the performance cache. That seems to cause the port :16080 to be added to the URL. Go into the Server Admin > Web> Settings>"double click server name"> Weblog> Performance Cache (checkbox) make sure it is unchecked and I'd then restart your server.
2. Any blogs already created while that performance cache was on may need to be deleted and recreated. That's what I had to do to get rid of the port number in the URL. Once I did that, it worked great.
hope this helps...

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