Don,
What you experience is how it works.
The template can be considered a mapkey. A stored sequence of generic instructions that are applied. Edit an rwt file to see.
The template would have to work with some relative (from a first selected study) path to find the other studies which are unlikely to be consistent.
The absolute paths won't be consistent.
<study id="1180" name="Analysis1" path=".\..\..\..\wind\" type="4">
<analysis id="1176" name="Analysis1"/>
<loadModeInfo type="4" action="4">
<loadModeScale scale="1.000000" included="true"/>
</loadModeInfo>
Having the studies all in the same directory would be a special case I suppose.
However, when you open your first study the template would have to know the name for the next it is looking for, unless the user is prompted to seek another.
and we lost the facility to append to already open results windows with those from another rwd a while back (wf1.0?.... I saw some discussion on this recently but can't remember where.).