The "Affect teaser output" seems not to work

Greetings,

Contemplate is running just fine along with CCK, but I have one annoying problem.

I create two new Content Types : that I call "Overview_Page" and "Custom_Page". Then I create a Template for both of them.

In the "Custom_page", I change the body (and check "Affect body" box) as well as the teaser (checking box too).

In the "Overview_Page", I change the body (+check box) and put some code with which I load a node object in a "$item" variable. My code (that I won't detail here) seems OK, since using e.g. "echo $item->body", gives the correct body from that "$item". This seems to work with any other property of that "$item" , such as $item->changed, etc.

BUT it seems not to work with $item->teaser. Everytime, I get the "default Drupal teaser", i.e. the first x lines of the node content (the ones you can break with

tag or something).

Weirdest thing is that when I try to change the teaser of the page, on the right pane I get an example of a node of that type, with all available variables, and when I go check the $body->reaser ... well it gives me the one I customized previously !!

So to sum up, the teaser variable is somewhat correctly affected by my customization in Contemplate, and when Contemplate itself goes check it, it's just fine. But when trying myself to access it from another node, it isn't working, while all other variables I checked, are.