This is my first crack at theming cck nodes, so forgive me if this is a dumb question...

All of my data fields are in groups...

I wanted to add a little bit of extra markup to the fieldset that is generated, a couple of div's so that I could float some of the stuff right or left instead of displaying the data linearly... The content-field-.tpl.php type of templates were not helpful, since the only work on individual fields. What I wound up doing was to override the default node.tpl.php -- I ignored $content and pieced together my node by using individual $_rendered variables along with the markup I need.

This works, but I'm wondering if there is an easier/better way to do it... My inclination would be to override theme_fieldgroup_fieldset, but the data is marked up already when it is passed in... I have searched in vain for where the individual fields are glued together before being passed to theme_fieldgroup_fieldset.

My main concern it to do it the 'drupal way' -- any comments?