Custom Posts Types and Templates

Hi all,

I’m using WP3.0, and I’m very excited about the new Custom Post Types and Taxonomies support (I’m using GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools), but I have some questions as to how they all tie in with templates.

I understand from the codex, that “single-<posttype>.php” will work for posts posted in a particular post type, but what about archives for each post type? Do I just call my template “posttype.php”, and it will work? I tried it but it didn’t seem to work… Is it using “archive.php” by default?

What I have done, which seems cumbersome, is to create a custom template with my custom query to load all posts that correspond to the specific custom type, and then create a page linked to the custom template…

How come it’s so easy to create the templates for the singles, but so hard for the archives?