Template Dropdown not showing up within Wordpress administrator page

Question

I am working on a Wordpress-based project, and I just added a new template to the installation by uploading a template file. I was creating a new page that will use my new templ

Answer 1

I had the exact same problem with WordPress 3.2.1. I added a new template and the menu disappeared from the page add/edit screen. The solution was to switch back to the default twentyeleven theme end then right back to my custom theme. The templates drop-down began appearing again.

BTW, you said "revert to the default template, and back to my custom template" but I'm pretty sure you meant theme. I'm guessing where you saw this was here:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-file-drop-down-not-appearing

Looks like this bug has existed for a couple of years at least. I filed a report: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18324