I was looking for some examples of toon smoke animation and came across a doc on toonboom element effects templates - where can I get hold of these; did a search on the tb site, but no luck there 
Hi!
Are you refering to the effects templates found on:
http://www.toonboom.com/products/animatepro/how-to/templates/
On thispage you have the instruction document as well as the download package fr either Mac or PC.
http://download.toonboom.com/files/templates/animatepro/AnimatePro2_fxTemplates_StormyWeather.exe
http://download.toonboom.com/files/templates/animatepro/AnimatePro2_fxTemplates_Particle.dmg
Let know if it is what you are looking for! 
Marie-Eve