podPress excerpts showing code/html and player

I have installed almost all of the above plugins and the uncustomized Motion theme and I could not reproduce this problem.
This means that it is e.g. the WordPress Flickr Manager plugin which I could not download or one of the other plugins with certein settings I could not try (because e.g. I have no Polldaddy acount) or a customization of the theme causes this.

What I know is that this problem is most likely caused by a call of the function get_the_excerpt(), the_content() or the_excerpt() (or by the usage of the WP Filter Hooks the_content or the_excerpt).
But in order solve the problem it necessary that I/we can determine better what is interefering with podPress.
Because I can not reproduce the effect it would be great if you could do some testing.
The one big question is: is it caused by the theme or by one of the other plugins.
It would be great if you could activate the Maintenance Mode for a moment and deactivate one plugin after another and check after the deactivation of each plugin whether something has changed.
Start with Polldaddy, WP Download Monitor, Gigpress and Tubepress.
Afterwards you can activate the plugins again.
If none of the plugins causes this interference then it is the customized version of the theme.
Does the e.g. the header.php, the index.php or home.php file contain get_th_excerpt()? Does any other php file of the theme contain this function call?

Do you whether the content of the posts in the Recent News column is displayed by the_excerpt() or the_content()?
If it is displayed by the_excerpt() then you could try to write an excerpt manually – basically copy&paste the first sentence of a post into the excerpt field below the post editor (you may nneed to make it visible first – see the Screen Options in the upper right corner of your admin screen).

Thank you for doing the tests.

Yes, you can use both plugins at the same without having this issue:

If you don’t want to show the social network icons on the homepage then there is quick solution. Deactivate the Advanced option “Show on homepage”. Your homepage shows excerpts of the posts and you have probably already deactivated the option “Show in excerpts”.

Another solution would be to add some additional code to the functions.php file of your theme:

add_action('pre_get_posts', 'remove_podpress_from_automatic_excerpts');
function remove_podpress_from_automatic_excerpts() {
	/* This function removes podPress elements from post content on the homepage of the blog. It helps especially if the home page shows only excerpts of the posts.*/
	if ( is_home() ) {
		global $podPress;
		if ( TRUE=== isset($podPress) AND TRUE === is_object($podPress) ) {
			remove_filter('the_content', array(&$podPress, 'insert_content'));
		}
	}
}

This code will remove the podPress code from the post content on the homepage. This is no problem in cases like yours where the blog homepage shows only excerpts of the posts.