Customized template question (the customized template is not working for my "Views" but will work fine for static pages

Yuriy,
I sincerely apologise (to everyone) for all these posts! The first post was because I was replying to someone else's post (Brian's...that other gent you are helping) and I thought it would be a preferred solution to start a new post instead of creating a whole new issue inside someone else's post.
The second duplicate was a mistake because I could not remember where I had posted it and so reposted it...then I just started to update the posts I had already. I am NOT usually this scatterbrained... I did this in a rush while I was at work trying to keep to my usual deadlines...

Anyway... back to business:

If I go to mysite.com/about (the static page) here is the output:

Array
(
    [0] => page-about
)

mysite.com/articles/some-node:

Array
(
    [0] => page-articles
    [1] => page-articles-and-yet-one-more-article-test
)

mysite.com/articles
There is no output!

The above results are what I get when I use this code:

<?php
function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  if (module_exists('path')) {
    $alias = drupal_get_path_alias(str_replace('/edit','',$_GET['q']));
    if ($alias != $_GET['q']) {
      $suggestions = array();
      $template_filename = 'page';
      foreach (explode('/', $alias) as $path_part) {
        $template_filename = $template_filename . '-' . $path_part;
        $suggestions[] = $template_filename;
      }
    }
    if (drupal_is_front_page()) {
      $suggestions[] = 'page-front';
    }
    $vars['template_files'] = $suggestions;
  }
  echo '<pre>';
   print_r($vars['template_files']);
   echo '</pre>';
} 
?>

When I use the code below, I get NO output at any of the pages.
Going to mysite.com/articles (the Views page) brings up the correct page-articles.tpl.php but mysite.com/articles/some-node brings up the incorrect page.tpl.php AND going to the static mysite.com/about now also brings up the incorrect page.tpl.php instead of page-about.tpl.php.
I wonder if pathauto is interfering w anything here?

<?php
function phptemplate_preprocess_block(&$vars)
{
    //the "cleaned-up" block title to be used for suggestion file name
    $subject = str_replace(" ", "-", strtolower($vars['block']->subject));
               
    $vars['template_files'] = array('block', 'block-'.$vars['block']->delta, 'block-'.$subject); 

    echo '<pre>';
    print_r($vars['template_files']);
    echo '</pre>';  
}
function phptemplate_preprocess_node(&$vars)
{
    //default template suggestions for all nodes
    $vars['template_files'] = array();
    $vars['template_files'][] = 'node';

    //individual node being displayed
    if($vars['page'])
    {   
        $vars['template_files'][] = 'node-page';
        $vars['template_files'][] = 'node-'.$vars['node']->type.'-page';
        $vars['template_files'][] = 'node-'.$vars['node']->nid.'-page';
    }
    //multiple nodes being displayed on one page in either teaser
    //or full view
    else
    {
        //template suggestions for nodes in general
        $vars['template_files'][] = 'node-'.$vars['node']->type;
        $vars['template_files'][] = 'node-'.$vars['node']->nid;
       
        //template suggestions for nodes in teaser view
        //more granular control
        if($vars['teaser'])
        {
            $vars['template_files'][] = 'node-'.$vars['node']->type.'-teaser';   
            $vars['template_files'][] = 'node-'.$vars['node']->nid.'-teaser';
        }
    }
    echo '<pre>';
    print_r($vars['template_files']);
    echo '</pre>';
} 
?>