BEx 7 Workbook Template Issue

Dear Gurus!
Has anybody experience with designing an excel master template in BEx 7?
I have designed a template on basis of a query, created a corporate theme, positioned the design items, inserted a logo etc. and saved the workbook on the BW server. When I have assigned this workbook as a global template. So far it works fine.
Now I have 2 problems:
1) If users run a query, but do not have authorization for the query the master template is based on, the data provider gets no query assignment hence the workbooks shows no result.
If I leave the data provider assignment blank or remove the data provider from the design items, it does not work neither.
2) How can I provide the corporate theme to the users that they can choose it without beeing able to change it? We have a lot of users which are creating local workbooks for special purposes.
The authorization object S_RS_TOOLS provides editing rights, hence is no solution for a reporting only user?
I hope you can help!
Best regards and thanks in advance,
Alex

Oh, I agree completely. I am still struggling with the same issue. I did put a query in the template to which all users have access, but the silly thing pops up a variable entry screen and then is somehow magically gone.

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