Weird iTunes Problem with Podcast

I have been stumped on this for several months now. My Escape Adulthood podcast has been listed in iTunes for a while now. I have three done episodes. Unfortunately, anytime anyone tries to download or preview episode #2 or #3 from iTunes, all they get is the audio from Episode #1, even though the title and description is different.
My feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/EscapeAdulthood and it works just fine in other aggregators, just not in iTunes. Of course, I've "Repported a Concern" several times and have heard nothing. Any ideas?

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