drupal template files in different folders for different content types I'm trying to get Drupal to scan multiple directories to find template files for pages and nodes. I have a content type called "contest". I have a node with the path of "http://mysite.com/contest/test 
I'd like to have a folder structure like:

templates
    page
        page.tpl.php
        page-front.tpl.php
    node
        node.tpl.php
    contest
        contest.tpl.php
        contest-test.tpl.php


Drupal is not finding contest tpl's.
See http://drupal.org/node/1089656 for more information on the possible file names that Drupal will recognize by default.  

Drupal will not recognize contest.tpl.php as it is not one of the patterns that it recognizes.  If contest.tpl.php is an override of node.tpl.php then you should name it node--contest.tpl.php

If you want to override a page template in the same manner, see this previous post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5194109/drupal-7-candidate-page-tpl-name-for-particular-custom-content-type-entry/5194364#5194364