PROBLEM not able to switch between page templates

[shawn_a]

in 3.3.4 is should be at the bottom of index.php
something like

PHP Code:

# include the template and template file set within theme.php and each page
if ( (!file_exists(GSTHEMESPATH .$TEMPLATE."/".$template_file)) || ($template_file == '') ) { $template_file = "template.php"; }
include(GSTHEMESPATH .$TEMPLATE."/".$template_file); 


try a
die($template_file); before that and see if its picking up the template from the page cache properly first.

it gets set in the same file
$template_file = $data_index->template;
just like other fields, are you seeing other fields update properly?Like title, menu text etc.