Instead od of using:
'text' => 'Testing',
can you use:
'linked_file' => '../index.tmpl',
in the default-templates.pl file to create all the weblogs identically?

You can change on any weblog edit template page and it will update the template file.

My concern is synchronization or lockup.

Thanks for any help

Ted

Well, I think that might work. But I don't sure if this will overwrite the template content in your default-templates.pl file.

Maybe you just can spend some times to test.

Good luck.