If I get your meaning, that would mean that I'd be re-drawing the tags for each new paddle crv file, which I don't want to do. What I'm trying to achieve is an "import" of both vector and toolpath data from an embedded .crv file. I can see that toolpath templates gets me half-way there, but it doesn't address getting the vectors from a single location.

In fact, if I understand the templates correctly, when you load the template, you copy the contents of the template at that time to the design file. You just get a snapshot of the template at a point in time. Future changes to the template are not reflected in the designs that used it. You'd need to delete those toolpaths and re-load them from the template. Correct?