Podcasting iTunes 11.1...extremely buggy?

I've got three problems that are new for iTunes 11.1 podcasts, I know I am not alone on some.

First, I know that the list view now shows all past episodes in the cloud. I, like many others, hate this since I have so many past episodes. I am wondering if there's a work around (I really don't like "My Podcasts" view)?

Second, a couple of my podcasts are marking past episodes as new and attempting to download deleted episodes every time my computer refreshes all podcasts (about once an hour). This is extremely annoying, as I have to go in an mark all of them as played again, and often delete them if they've downloaded. It is annoying to levels of wanting to break something because...

Third, whenever, and I mean whenever, I click something in iTunes under the podcasts tab, I get the rainbow wheel for a good ten seconds or more. This means that every time I have to go in to "mark as played" the podcasts that I have already repeatedly marked, it takes a good minute when it should take about three seconds.

Any thoughts or help on this? It is driving me up the wall at this point and I am considering dropping podcasts altogether on my computer. Thanks in advance.