Feed Validator reports "misplaced item", seems wrong to me

Feed Validator reports my feed is valid but recommends I fix a misplaced item:  "all item 
elements should appear after all of the other elements in a channel." The order of my tags 
is as follows (with dummy stuff plugged in), and I believe this conforms to specifications:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
<title>MY TITLE HERE</title>
<link>MY LINK HERE</link>
<description>MY DESCRIPTION HERE</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:31:32 -0700</pubDate>
<generator>MY GENERATOR NAME HERE</generator>
<webMaster>MY EMAIL ADDR HERE</webMaster>
<item>
<title>MY TITLE FOR FIRST ITEM HERE</title>
etc etc,  for a number of items, down to ...
</item>
<atom:link href="MY LINK HERE" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
</channel>
</rss>


But Feed Validator reports that the <item> tags (I have a number of items in the feed) are 
out of place... "all item elements should appear after all of the other elements in a 
channel." 

What am I doing wrong? Isn't the above exactly compliant with 2.0 specs?

Thx,
Ken


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