I tried the %male and could not get it to work although the other templates are working
Umm. that's because I haven't added it yet. I have to patch the template parser to add it, then send the patch to Jon, and then he has to look it over and incorporate it into the main source code tree, then release it in a later beta...
I plan on adding a few more of these to the parser and sending an updated patch to Jon soon..
V.