This is a looooooooooooong shot, but...

... Is there a possibility of synchronising the gPodder playcounts with iTunes? As long as I have an iPhone / iPad (the latter may be getting the heave-ho later, but not right now), iTunes is a necessary evil in my life.

However in one way it's not evil to me - the playcounts, which are as essential as gPodder on the N900 is for keeping track of what I've listened to. It would be fantastic if the playcounts would somehow migrate from gPodder to iTunes (and vice versa...).