granted, you can use one template with more than one script, but you still end up with a bunch of ugly template-filling code in each script that could be replaced by integrated html that otherwise would be on the template.
it just seems like too much work to me and I think I am about to change everything to non-template design and although that, too will be extra work, it will result in less server overhead now and a different approach for later so that I don't have to try to decide what should be templated and what not and where and how you can interleave php with them, which is difficult.
I just don't quite see the point in templates if you are working alone. can anyone enlighten me?