How to Create Teaser View Layout

Thanks for getting back to me. I ended up simply biting the bullet and learning how to create a full node view myself. For the benefit of those who follow behind looking for this info, I've included my code below (based, of course, on the code you provided). It's working.

In addition to the info you provided, I also found help here:
http://drupal.org/node/45485
http://drupal.org/node/45475
http://drupal.org/node/42597

With respect to the last question I asked, I also made use of the Views Theming Wizard which is a standard part of the views module.

Note: "logotool_getanongid($nodeID)" is a custom function I wrote which is designed to get the groupID of a supplied node.

Further note: "drupaliciuos_summarise" simply would not work for me, so I ended up snipping the content using the "substr()" function.

Again, thanks a bunch. Everything's working fine now.

This is a flexinode content type, so the filename is: node-flexinode-3.tpl.php and it is placed in my theme directory.

<code>
<?php
    if ($page == 0): //this article node is being displayed as a teaser
?>
<table id = "Article" cellpadding=2>
<tr> 
<td><?php print '<a href="/node/'.$nid.'">'.$title.'</a>'?></td>
</tr>
<?php 
	$maxlen = 50;
	$content = drupalicious_summarise($node->flexinode_3, $maxlen);
	$content = substr($content,0,$maxlen);
	$nodeID = $node->nid;
	$gid = logotool_getanongid($nodeID);	  	
	$group_node = node_load($gid);
	$group_title = $group_node->title;
?>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><?php 
//							print check_markup($content, $node->flexinode_3_format, FALSE);
							//
							// If this snippet starts with a <p> then remove it.
							//
							$search = '<p>';
							if (strncmp($content, $search, strlen($search)) == 0) {
								$content = str_replace($search, "", $content);
								$content = str_replace("</p>", "", $content);

							}
							print $content;
							if (str_word_count($node->flexinode_3) > str_word_count($content)) {
								print	'... '.
                            			'<a href="/node/'.
                            			$nid.'">read more</a>';
							} // endif
                        ?>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign=top>
<?php if ($comment==1){
                    $commenttext="comment";
                    } Else {
                    $commenttext="comments";
                    }
            ?>
<?php print 
                date("M d Y", $created).
                ' | '.
                $comment_count.
                ' '.
                $commenttext.
                '<br>'.
				'<a href="/node/'.
				$gid.
				'">'.
				$group_title.
				'</a>'
            ?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br>
<?php
    endif;
?>
<?//************************* End Teaser Article Node Template ***********************//?>
<?php
    if ($page == 1): //this article node is being displayed as full node
?>
<table id = "Article" cellpadding=2>
<?php 
	$body = $node->flexinode_3;
	$nodeID = $node->nid;
	$gid = logotool_getanongid($nodeID);	  	
	$group_node = node_load($gid);
	$group_title = $group_node->title;
	$statistics = statistics_get($node->nid);
	if ($statistics) {
  		$reads = $statistics['totalcount'];
  	} else {
  		$reads = 0;
	}
?>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><?php 		print $body ?>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign=top>
<?php print 	'<small>'.
                '<a href="/comment/reply/'.
				$nodeID.
				'#comment_form">'.
                'add comment'.
				'</a>'.
                ' | '.
                '<a href="/emailpage/'.
				$nodeID.
				'">'.
                'Email this page'.
				'</a>'.
                ' | '.
                '<a href="/node/'.
				$nodeID.
				'/print">'.
                'printer friendly version'.
				'</a>'.
                ' | '.
                '<a href="/subscriptions/add/node'.
				$nodeID.
				'">'.
                'subscribe post'.
				'</a>'.
                ' | '.
				'<a href="/node/'.
				$gid.
				'">'.
				$group_title.
				'</a>'.
                ' | '.
                $reads . ' reads'.
				'</small>'
            ?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br>
<?php
    endif;
?>
<?//************************* End Page Article Node Template ***********************//?>

Good Luck!