Custom Site Template with Publishing feature enable in SharePoint 2007

I had a request to create a custom site template for reusability. As we always enable "Publishing Feature" for all team sites, I tried to save an existing site as template. But you know what, site with Publishing feature, does not provide an option to "save site as template".

Then I tried a trick to open save site as template page:

So just to make it clear.  If your subsite is
http://sites/toplevelsite/teamsite/default.aspx
You would go to :
http://sites/toplevelsite/teamsite/default.aspx/_layouts/savetmpl.aspx

Here you should be able to save site as template.BUT the problem was not solved. Doing this, when you try to create a new site from this template, it is not going to work. It will throw an error and your site is not created.

So to explain in one line, you have to save site templates without enabling "Publishing Feature" and then activate it manually after creating a site from this template.