Index: trunk/core/kernel/parser/template.php
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diff -u -N -r8879 -r8922
--- trunk/core/kernel/parser/template.php	(.../template.php)	(revision 8879)
+++ trunk/core/kernel/parser/template.php	(.../template.php)	(revision 8922)
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@
 				trigger_error("Template file size is 0: <b>$filename</b>", ($silent ? E_USER_NOTICE : E_USER_ERROR) );
 			}
 
-			$this->SetBody(file_get_contents($filename));
+			// stripping out special comments
+			$this->SetBody(preg_replace('/<!--##.*##-->/s', '', file_get_contents($filename)));
 			/*$handle = fopen ($filename, "r");
 			$contents = fread ($handle, filesize ($filename));
 			$this->SetBody($contents);