Drupal 5.2 & Smarty: smartytemplate.php doesn't get invoked

hi guys,
I've taken the liberty of copying the txt from my forum-post. hope that's ok for you :D

I'm really become desperate because I didn't get it work as i need it to :( :(

thx for your help!!!
melchior

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Hi guys,

I'm new to drupal and it seems to be very very nice one.
especially the abstract concept is very sexy ;)

Now I got a dramatically problem with drupal and smarty themes engine.

I downloaded the newest smarty extension from http://drupal.org/project/smarty
so it should be ready to work with drupal 5 (as far as I understood)

Outputing content-vars by {$conent} works fine by using smarty-engine.

But when I try to modify or use smartytemplate.php I noticed that this
file isn't in use and can't be invoked to define regions or vars :(

- even if I delete smartytemplate.php in current theme, nothing is
taking effect :(

does anyone use smarty and can define blocks etc?
would be so nice, if someone could help me :D

best regards,
melchior