Well.. I downloaded and ran 0.16.1-1 and it's been working for me flawlessly, now! It fixed a whoooole bunch of problems I'd been working around before AND the CNET stuff seems to start downloading almost immediately. That's a pleasant surprise!

...except.. one.. thing.

Now, when I try to download any podcasts from the pay-for, password protected feed at http://airamerica.com/ondemand/podcast/6618/full I get the error, 'No module named getpass'. I didn't remove any python modules as far as I know. At the least, I would think that the gpodder deb would require any python modules it needed anyway. Maybe there was a typo or a correction made that caused this to rear up. Anyway--I suppose I just needed to let you know I see that.

PS - Also, I noticed that gpodder doesn't like the redirection to the proper mp3's from that URL's links either.. but that seems to be a separate issue.