Comment 2 for bug 175365

I investigated a bit more into this problem and here's my conclusion: if the user deletes the Templates folder (I did Shift+Delete) and restarts the computer, nautilus seems to never check again for this folder (nautilus doesn't show anymore any templates even if the user creates this folder and adds templates to it).

Here's what I did:
On another computer a formatted a partition and made a clean install of Gutsy. When I first logged there was already the "Templates" folder and I added a OpenOffice odt document and it showed up instantly in the right-click menu. Then I deleted this folder, made a computer restart, created back the folder and the template - but the templates don't work anymore.

ps: If you care about your current templates I suggest checking what I posted above on some computer/installation that you don't care about, cause you risk having to reinstall the OS or something alike to get back the templates working, just my 2 cents.. btw I'm surprised by the fast reply, on Sun's bug track it usually takes weeks..