Creating smart builds in master slides

Hey,
I am putting together a keynote and I am wanting to make three templates in master slides each with a smart build.
basically needing three templates that I can drop a bunch of photos in for approx 10 slides per master.
It does not allow me to drop any images in the slides below apart from the master is there anyway I can do this other then making a smart build on each slide??
Cheers onrails

Just took a peek at Smart Builds and now I'm wondering how editable they are (ie are they based on .qtz files). Anyway, you can workaround masking on smart build objects by masking them first, copying, pasting into Pages, copying from there, then pasting back into the Drop Zone (click to highlight it, then paste). It should work directly in Keynote, but, hey, that's why we love Keynote!
I posted about the problem here.
http://www.keynoteuser.com/news/?p=240

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You are not using the correct method to edit items on a slide. Double clicking an object on a slide that is on the slide master allows editing the master object, it does not allow editing the object on the slide.
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