Classic WTF is with CDR X5 Template Dialog!

Corel has had a long history with screwing the the 'New from Template' dialog, and making it way more difficult to add your own templates. 1) I do not use those pre-canned templates. 2) I create and use lots of my own. 3) this newest  incarnation of the' New from Template' dialog makes management impossible.

OS is Win7 64-bit Ultimate. Drawings are in custom library '\users \jonathan\drawings' with templates in \users '\jonathan\drawing\My Templates' and library is indexed.

Something happened where nearly  every time (9 of ot 10)  I would open the 'New from Template' dialog CD would crash to the desktop.

Faulting application name: CorelDRW.exe, version: 15.2.0.695, time stamp: 0x4e52a655
Faulting module name: CdrRip.dll, version: 15.2.0.695, time stamp: 0x4e52aa44
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0002b08b
Faulting process id: 0x%9
Faulting application start time: 0x%10
Faulting application path: %11
Faulting module path: %12
Report Id: %13

So I bit the bullet and uninstall it and reinstalled it.

First problem was I when through ALL the setup options and DESELECTED installing all those profession templates. After the install, and the service patches, and the hotfix  fired up CDR and I have ALL those damn profession templates! Complete with the international UK stuff. And mu custom templates where not found. So I started recreating them by opening each and saving at CDT. Now I set custom types such as 'GUI graphics' , 'Art Print', etc. I confirmed that the custom types were set in the CDT. If you unzip them the /metadata/metadata.xml with have <type>GUI graphics</type> but when they would finally appear in the 'New from Template' dialog they would be under a very "useful and intuitive" type category "c6bf3282-449d-45f4-9dbf-4e57593fe60b"!  Where did c6bf3282-449d-45f4-9dbf-4e57593fe60b" come from? Checking the "%APPDATA%\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5\Custom Data\TemplateProperties.xml" I find these entries:

...

<itemData type="statusText" guid="postcard"/>
<itemData type="statusText" guid="poster"/>
<itemData type="statusText" guid="020835e6-4789-4573-8322-50cd9c9f023b" text="c6bf3282-449d-45f4-9dbf-4e57593fe60b"/>
<itemData type="statusText" guid="99227fe5-bff0-4a39-a618-3593783d04a6" text="f6942807-ccf5-4ebf-8e2d-c58c371a7d05"/>
...

None of these GUIDs are in the registry.

So in order of need.

1) How to get rid of all those pre-canned templates UK Daycare and crap.

2) How to have ONLY my templates with MY type categories

3) Is there some kind of template manager, if not info on how to do it manually

4) Where did all those GUIDs come from hand where are the referenced and stored?

In the old days you could add your templates directly into the dialog, then you had to create a 'special' tab, then there was a 'browse' tab that pointed to a local folder I think that was CDR11, and now this garbage. Sorry for the rant, but been frustrated getting this to work.

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Jonathan