sidebar template

I’ve gotten nice results with defining separate headers and footers for template pages in the general-templage.php. However, the sidebar define statement in general-template.php is different than the define statements for footer.php and header.php, and sure enough I cannot get my template to call a different sidebar. How can I get my template page to call it’s own sidebar?
general-template.php define statement:

function get_sidebar( $name = null ) {
	do_action( 'get_sidebar' );
	if ( isset($name) && file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . "/sidebar-{$name}.php") )
		load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . "/sidebar-{$name}.php");
	elseif ( file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php') )
		load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php');
	else
		load_template( WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/themes/default/sidebar.php');
}

Thanks,
JSC