I have been watching this particular thread half-heartedly, but I can't
help but wonder why you cannot achieve your goals with the (XLT)?! The
path will always point to the XLT regardless of the name assigned to the
XLS workbook  created. So even though a number 1 or 2, etc is assigned to
the workbook upon template execution, the named template will still be
in the same location, so the check can still work. Unless I am missing
something, this appears to be the case.