Why I want to kill the contemplate module

I am in the process of moving my flexinode data to CCk and upgrading my site to 5.0. I have quite a few custom node.tpl files that need to get imported into CCK templates. I'm using contemplate and everything works rather nicely except one crucial problem. The book navigation links and "add another location" links (for location module) just don't show for my customized CCK node. The rest of the template works great, but I can't get these important navigational elements to display with my custom template. I am about to go crazy. I went through this same problem with flexinode and my node.tpl files. The fix that I found for flexinode will not work with my contemplates! Can
someone help? Shouldn't contemplate simply incorporate, by default, the expected node related links for a drupal node?

Here is the solution that I found for my flexinode templates:
http://drupal.org/node/25567#comment-45897

I can get everything to show by simply using

<?php print $body ?> 

Here is a copy of contemplate content thus far.

<div class="special_content">
<div id="about_node">
<div id="org_header">
<h3 class="field-label">About</h3>
</div>

<div id="address_pad">
<div id="org_image">
  <div class="field-items">
    <?php foreach ((array)$field_header_image as $item) { ?>
      <div class="field-item"><?php print $item['view'] ?></div>
    <?php } ?>
  </div>
</div>

  <div class="field-items">
    <?php foreach ((array)$field_about as $item) { ?>
      <div class="field-item"><?php print $item['view'] ?></div>
    <?php } ?>
  </div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<br />
<div id="about_node">
<div id="org_header"><h3>Contact Information</h3></div>
<div id="address_pad">
<div class="field field-type-ca-phone field-field-phone">
  <h3 class="field-label">Phone</h3>
  <div class="field-items">
    <?php foreach ((array)$field_phone as $item) { ?>
      <div class="field-item"><?php print $item['view'] ?></div>
    <?php } ?>
  </div>
</div>

<br />
<?php if (content_format('field_fax', $field_fax[0]) > '') : ?>
<div class="field field-type-ca-phone field-field-fax">
  <h3 class="field-label">Fax</h3>
  <div class="field-items">
    <?php foreach ((array)$field_fax as $item) { ?>
      <div class="field-item"><?php print $item['view'] ?></div>
    <?php } ?>
  </div>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<br />
<?php if (content_format('field_e_mail', $field_e_mail[0]) > '') : ?>
<div class="field field-type-email field-field-e-mail">
  <h3 class="field-label">E-mail</h3>
  <div class="field-items">
    <?php foreach ((array)$field_e_mail as $item) { ?>
      <div class="field-item"><?php print $item['view'] ?></div>
    <?php } ?>
  </div>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php print theme('locations', $locations); ?>
</div>
  </div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

[edit: sepeck - fixed code tags]