When calling $this->loadLayout() in your controller, does Magento fetches all of the xml files from the layout folders in the current design package?
I am trying to figure out how the customer login form pulls out the template from:
persistent/customer/form/login.phtml, is it because there is only a layout file: persistent.xml present?
EDIT:
I figured it out I didn’t see there is a new module in 1.6.1.0 and also there are changes in model resource names
The customer login form pulls in because of the template or code block type referenced in that block’s XML tag (in persistent.xml).