We are preparing site templates for our MyClass SharePoint server. Since
each class is a site collection (like MySites), the templates need to be
installed in each web front-ends as global templates. However, we are
having a problem creating the sites programmatically because at site
creation time, we reference the template by its template ID, but the same
template ends up with different ID's on the different front-ends in the
farm.

I am looking for best practices to make sure not only that all WFE's have
the same templates, but that they hace the same ID's. Alternatively, does
anyone know of a way to reference templates by name rather than ID?