yes, but you should be able to copy-paste them from your old vbulletin to vb3 is my point. well, i should with all the modifications i've made to FG, anyway. but anyone who knows what he's doing could make his vb2 templates more or less vb3 upgrade-safe, assuming the code isn't changed more than i think it is. you'll lose your templates on the install if you haven't backed them up, but once you've installed it you can probably reuse an only slightly different version of what you already have.

i really need to play around more in vb3's admin control panel. to be frank, it's terribly confusing, though. =/