It's just for setting stuff in the running session. If you want to make something permanent put it in panucci.conf. I'd guess that the most used options are lock progress and play mode which probably are not any values you would like to store anyway. There will be more options added to panucci.conf too. You could put just about any option used in panucci in there, like hotkeys and sizes and stuff. i will soon add a gui option but more about that later.

You mean the gpodder bug?! Hmm, as I said before I believe you but as it seems to work just fine for me I don't really know how to fix it. Will have to ask thp about it. But as there doesn't seem to be that much else to fix I might look into it some more.