issue with new templates and old drawings

We recently created new templates, actually we created 1 new template, to replace 4 or 5 old ones. The new template has layers with notes on them, so you can modify it based on the type of drawing you need. Works great on new drawings, but when we update an existing drawing, the layers are there, but they are blank. It looks like it only brings in the format layer in full, and just the names of the others. Is this use of layers not possible when replacing old templates or is there a setting we need to switch to make this work?

any help would be appreciated,

Allen

SolidworksDrawings And Detailing