Creative Zen and podcasts - gift questions

[Vicious Tyrant]

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, I couldn't find it.

I'd like to get some kind of iPod-y thing for my mom for Christmas, I think she'd love podcasts. I saw some Zen 4gigs on sale at Goodwill with damaged packaging. Being cheap, of course I'm tempted by that. Would a Zen allow me to hook her up with podcasts the way I can with iTunes and my iPod, or will the Zen not coordinate with iTunes?

Thanks for any thoughts you have.

[Waveblade]

Zen doesn't work with iTunes but you can use Zencast which is Creative's Podcast utility.

Alternatively, you could just download using iTunes and sync it like normal