Re: the advanced configuration dialog, I appreciate the desire to keep things simple, particularly for new users. Most of them I don't use. Here are the ones I do use:
* download_dir -- At a minimum, I think it's important for users to be able to choose between the internal (the default) and external memory card.
* player -- I don't think that Panucci is useful without the --queue parameter (although that could, in theory, be fixed in Panucci by making --queue the default behavior). I like to load up on podcasts at home and listen to multiple in the car, not listen to just one at a time.

IMHO, these are candidates for being out of the advanced dialog and into the main dialog.

As an unrelated aside, I flashed my N810 and noticed that my podcast listing wasn't backed up using the standard backup tool. (As an aside to the aside, maybe I'll submit a bug report for that, but in the meantime I'm guessing that the import/export to OPML and upload/download to my.gpodder.org are the best tools for backing up podcasts.) My question is this -- my podcasts are still all there on my external memory card. Is there a simple way to get them back into gPodder?