I had to read this a few times to understand what you were suggesting ..... and frankly, I'm still not sure I completely get it. It sounds like you use a saved tournament file as a "template" for each tournament. But you also save each of the various pieces of a tournament in specific template files: a rounds template, a prizes template, a layout, etc.
So, you run several different types of tournaments, so you have several tournament "templates" saved. The problem comes when you modify the layout, and when you do you must load each tournament template, then load the new layout, then re-save the tournament template. Right?
So, instead of doing this you would rather physically move or copy the various template files into a folder, press a new "New Tournament from Template" button, which would instruct the TD to load the tournament template and then in turn load each of the template files (for rounds, layout, etc) that are also in that same folder. Then you could re-save the tournament template.
Is that right?
It sounds to me like basically the same thing in a different way. Same number of steps, just different steps. Or am I way off the mark?