Orriginal Template Location
 

Could anybody tell me where the orriginal Templates are stored within the system ?

Instead of editing the standart templates using the adminCP, I would like to do it manually in order to override the standerd included templates.

I need this for this project I'm working on wherein my supermods get each to derive a new style, for which I want them to use our current style as their starters point instead of the orriginal Vbulletin 2.x one, taking away from them the possibility to actually 'harm' the current style.

I've been looking throughout different files for all day now but haven't been able to find them, which made me realize I have no ideah where the Vbulletin system stores templates in the first place.
And may it be in the database, then still the templates had to be placed there during instalation, no ?

The database, xml files originally. But those are not so easy to work with.

The Master style cannot be touched unless you are in debug mode, so theres nothing that they could "destory" anyway.

Yes but it's in fact the master style that I want to overrwrite with my own.
I have quite a few modifications installed and want contestants to use the altered templates as a startoff.

I was thinking of doing this by altering the templates before instalation but I have not been able to locate them thusfar.

It is a very bad idea to edit the Master Style, also since it will be overwritten on an update.

Just create 1 new Style for all modifications and set it as parent to all other styles.