title: Magento - catalog.xml not using correct template
body: <p>Noob developing a Magento theme and I can't seem to figure out why Magento is not using the path I specify in the setTemplate action on catalog.xml.</p>
  
  <p>I've got my own theme in /app/design/frontend/default/mycustomtheme and I've been patching files over from the base and making changes.</p>
  
  <p>I've copied over /app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/catalog.xml to my custom theme at /app/design/frontend/default/mycustomtheme/layout/catalog.xml. I've set the template to be a specific phtml file...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;catalog_product_view translate="label"&gt;
      &lt;label&gt;Catalog Product View (Any)&lt;/label&gt;
      &lt;!-- Mage_Catalog --&gt;
      &lt;reference name="root"&gt;
          &lt;action method="setTemplate"&gt;&lt;template&gt;page/2column.phtml&lt;/template&gt;&lt;/action&gt;
      &lt;/reference&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Yet it's not working. Can someone spot what the problem might be? I've got all cache disabled and other changes I make I can see immediately, just not this one.</p>
  
  <p><strong>edit:</strong> I should note, if I change something else in the catalog_product_view xml node I see those changes are reflected. For instance if I remove <code>&lt;action method="addJs"&gt;&lt;script&gt;varien/product.js&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/action&gt;</code> then I see the reference is removed in the rendered html file.</p>
  
  <p><strong>edit2:</strong> Adding images to address questions ...</p>
  
  <p><em>did you setup-up / configured the theme from your store backend?</em></p>
  
  <p>Yes, and it's actually loading the correct header and footer, and it's properly styled.
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JdKXi.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p><em>Are you sure you have such template under /app/design/frontend/default/mycustomtheme/template/page/ directory?</em></p>
  
  <p>Yes, I can confirm the file is there<br>
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/cje5h.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>