is this acceptable for a sponsor hosted freesite?

[MrYum]

Those look pretty good to me

On that last one though...the middle ad on the main page may cause some problems. The graphic looks almost like another thumb entry...until it finally flashes the paysite name. Would probably be ok if the gif moved a little bit faster.

I wouldn't have any problem with the template being used once for each paysite. That should still provide enough variation since they're all in difference categories