theme teaser ajax node template

I have two views.
One uses a relationship to display a node-referenced field of a node-referenced field.
The other view simply includes the node-reference field.

Both are set to display the field using the "teaser" format.

I have a custom node tpl file for the content type in question.

When I run a search (exposed form) on the first view, I lose the custom node tpl HTML output, and instead see the default teaser output.

Performing a similar exposed filter search on view #2 correctly maintains my custom TPL code.