Malisa,
Curt's scripts allow you to plug in parameters as well as dates. From your description, it sounds like your "intro string" that appears in the actions could easily be inserted by the script instead of by hand. For that matter, the script automatically generates the new project (so you don't have to remember to duplicate the template), and your template of course could have the "check to see if the template needs updating" action. If anyone hasn't gotten the message yet, I really like Curt's Populate Template Placeholders scripts, thanks Curt! :-)
A somewhat contrived example:
Run the script, plug in E104, Cannon: Dynamics of Physical Systems, Durand 201, and 10/21 for the parameters, and I get this:
I see that the window I captured the results in doesn't show the date columns. You get what you pay for :-)