I realize I am not helping you with the actual question you have posted, but I feel it is necessary to point out that multiple templates for one website is one of the most horrid things you can do to a user. I login to perlmonks expecting everything to look the way it did the last time I visited. You may think both templates are worthwhile, but having your pages look different on each separate visit to the site is a Bad Thing™. You will manage to do nothing more than confuse, frustrate, and irritate your users. Today's lesson: one website, one template.