Office 2003 Template Names

[Smannesman]

We've created a shared folder with a company's templates and used a registry hack to point the workgroup templates setting in Office to that folder.

The users can see and use the templates just fine, but instead of friendly names they see the filenames. (so for example officetemplate.dot instead of 'Office Template')

Is there any way to give them friendly names?

Oh and while you're here, is there an easy way to make the template dialog pop up (like in Office 2000) instead of them having to use the template pane?

Not the most drastic of questions I know, but I'd still like to create a nice environment to work in for our customers.