I can only get metatemplate to work with Joomla preinstalled templates, not my custom made ones.  I'm a web designer, so I'm not a novice really at template creations (I've done over 200 Joomla 1.5 templates so far), but I can't for the life of me figure out why the rule will work with the Beez and joomla pre-installed type templates, but doesn't work at all with ANY of my custom made templates.  Any idea what I'm missing?  The rule is specifying that one section/category has one template and a different section/category has another.