Wordpress Category Template Question - wordpress

I am looking at using a custom template for a set of categories. Is it possible to use a category template (like category-4.php) on a parent category and have the children use that template as well?
So based on the answer so far, is there a way to accomplish this? I want to add text and images to all categories within a parent category.

From the documentation it does not appear to be possible without actually adding several category template files (unless you custom program it). I run Wordpress, and I have only seen it accomplished category by category.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

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I am using a accordion menu that displays my categories and sub categories.
If a category has any children i wish the results to be displayed using my modified archive.php. However if there are no children i wish for the post to be displayed on single.php.
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It won't use archive.php, but it will allow you to create a template called parent-category.php. Anything that is not a parent will be ignored.
Additionally, the plugin gives you access to a conditional tag is_parent_category().

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Does anyone have a nice link about this?
THX!
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I mean something like this: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/10/naamloosea.jpg/
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I did a quick search and found the following plugin for WordPress that may be of use... http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/map-categories-to-pages/

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