DW CS4 - Template/Child Saving Trouble

I'm really very new to DW, and so I'm learning as I go. I had a site with a bunch of templates, but it appeared that the pages were all created from other pages rather than from templates. I started playing with Templates, created a couple pages from them, but that never really worked out for me so I started creating pages from other pages.
The few that I did create from a template now won't save when I hit "save," instead, it tries to save the page as a template. To work around this I've started selecting "save as" and then saving over the file, or if I hit "save all" it just saves everything open. BUT why am I having this problem and how can I change it so that I don't have to work around the issue?
Should I start working more with templates, I've seen a few people in other posts recommend against it, but they were discussing older versions.

Hi,
in the meantime I had a look at this "www.clark-eng.com" and it's source code. So on first glance I can't see anything flashy.
Could you create a new useful directory structure and then copy the "roving" pages into a corresponding oportuning sub-directory? From there the links among them ought to be possible to establish.
As for the lifting of template entries, I recommend this thread (Templates and links from Nancy O.), which has this thing in the topic more or less:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2926278#2926278
Hans-G.

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"cybergrace" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I have created templates with editable regions for my
websites. When I try
>to
> insert a Flash video file (.flv) it wants to put code in
the header region
> and
> body region. I have tried erasing the editable areas,
making the entire
> header
> an editable area, making the entire site an editable
area. I've tried
> looking
> on Google and the Dreamweaver Developers section (there
is a link to an
> answer
> but the link is broken). I unfortunately only have
Dreamweaver 8. If
> this
> problem is fixed in CS3 I'd be happy to go to Kinkos and
rent a machine.
> Any
> suggestions?
> Thanks!
>

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