Difficulties using generic views (Tutorial 4, Django 1.4)

I'm new to django and python, and decided to follow up the available tutorials to get up to speed. These were helpful and got me on my feet but while finishing up the tutorial i hit a major snag. While everything was working properly using custom views, i can't seem to make my app load the correct templates after switching to generic views.

Here's the code:

#urls.py
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.views.generic import DetailView, ListView
from polls.models import Poll

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$',
        ListView.as_view(
            queryset=Poll.objects.order_by('-pub_date')[:5],
            context_object_name='latest_poll_list',
            template_name='polls/index.html')),
    url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
        DetailView.as_view(
            model=Poll,
            template_name='polls/detail.html')),
    url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)/results/$',
        DetailView.as_view(
            model=Poll,
            template_name='polls/results.html'),
        name='poll_results'),
    url(r'^(?P<poll_id>\d+)/vote/$', 'polls.views.vote'),
)

The way i decided (perhaps wrongly) to organize my apps and templates is as follows:

Template dir as defined in settings.py:
TEMPLATE_DIRS = ('/home/my_user/Webdev/Templates/', # this is where i'm storing my templates at the moment

App location: /home/my_user/Webdev/Django-lessons/pollproject/polls

If i try to access the polls app directly by using the URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/polls/ i now get an error message stating that:

TemplateDoesNotExist at /polls/

index.html, polls/poll_list.html

I realize this might have something to do with where i decided to store my templates (made more sense at the time to store them separately since i thought i could use different templates for the same app, for different purposes).

This is probably a basic issue but any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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