Turbine Framework

Is there any workaround to force Turbine use the JSP pages? For now I facing the problems with the template paths - for some reason Turbine won't deal with /templates. It complains the template contains the "/" as first charachter, and it removes this charachter, but then when Turbine tries to deal with RequestDispatcher - the dispatcher throws the exception about wrong relative path templates/layouts/layout.jsp

any sugegstions?