linuxdoc / docbook question

I've written a HOWTO about setting up a software based CD Server under Linux. I originally wrote it in word, then grabbed the first template from the LDP Author Guide and copied/pasted everything into the template (in vim). The template I used was the "linuxdoc" template. The problem is that when I tried using jade to render to HTML, there were tons of errors, unsupported tags, etc. Apparently the template I grabbed was the wrong one, and I should have grabbed the "docbook" template ???? I really have spent a lot of time writing this howto, and will transcribe it all to the other template if I must. Would it be easier to render the different formats if I use the "docbook" template?? Maybe I missed something simple. Please advise, thanks.