Object Template loading

Still a little confused about object templates. All the tutorials say templates are not registered with the object database, but in order to find a template from a loaded SceneView, you still have to query the object database...does that mean templates are still entered into the datbase, just not registered? If so, to find templates we should use TorqueObjectDatabase.Instance.FindRegisteredObject for torque objects, and TorqueObjectDatabase.Instance.FindObject for object templates?