[iTunes] Can't delete podcast-formatted files from iPod

[John Pietras]

I'm new to this list, so please forgive me if this has already been 
answered.

I have an iPod nano. To compress some long spoken-word files that I 
wanted to listen to later, I saved them to iTunes (4.9) as podcast (32 
kbps) AAC files and then loaded them on my iPod nano. When I finished 
needing them on my nano, I "deleted" them - or so I thought. They are 
not in fact deleted from the iPod, they just no longer appear on the 
iTunes listing of the contents of the iPod.

Any suggestions for getting these files off the iPod, short of 
restoring (and erasing everything)? I really like the compression 
available from this podcast encoding, but I can't use it if it makes 
the resulting files undeletable.

Thanks.