<p>Are there any good packages or methods for doing extensive CRUD (create-retrieve-update-delete) interfaces in the Turbogears framework. The FastDataGrid widget is too much of a black box to be useful and CRUDTemplate looks like more trouble than rolling my own. Ideas? Suggestions?</p>

While
CRUDTemplate
looks mildly complex, I'd say that you can implement CRUD/ABCD using just about any ORM that you choose. It just depends on how much of it you with to automate (which generally means defining models/schemas ahead of time). You may learn more and have better control if you put together your own using SQLAlchemy or SQLObject, woth of which work great with TurboGears.