I've only been reading up on SEO for about 3 or 4 days but I am a DW4 user
and I do have an idea

Perhaps your template contains all the links for the whole site so that
every page of your site contains every internal link. Is that the case?
I believe, this to be significantly bad in terms of achieving a high PR
(page ranking) which in turn affects your search results ranking.
Do your non-template pages contain exactly the same links as your template
pages?
If so, my above idea is wrong.
all the best
mark