Crash while streaming podcast

The iPod software crashes within a minute of streaming a podcast after I click "Get More Episodes..." and select an episode.

Here are two other observations:

There is no crash if I click the "Free" button and download the podcast before playing it.

However, I still get the crash if I click the pause button and allowing the entire episode to cache before actually playing the episode. In that case the crash happens while playing the podcast not during the caching. Strange, huh.

This is on an original iPhone 2G running v3.0