Recently i am struggeling around with deploying problems of workflows...
I tried the mostly known tutorials about creating and deploying workflows (msdn, nick swan) but i have the problem that my workflow always shows up with the "inactive" status in sharepoint workflow administration...
when i try to assign it to a document library i even can't pick it from the workflow choice field (there are only the standard workflows which turn up with "active" in the sharepoint administration).

is this a security problem?

here are my .xml samples from the project:
feature.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- _lcid="1033" _version="12.0.3111" _dal="1" -->
<!-- _LocalBinding -->
<Feature Id="BA6C3E85-2CA8-4516-82D5-DD28F8DC5A44"
Title="Workflow_addIT "
Description="*** workflow"
Version="12.0.0.0"
Scope="Site"
ReceiverAssembly="Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Feature, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"
ReceiverClass="Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Feature.WorkflowFeatureReceiver"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<ElementManifests>
<ElementManifest Location="workflow.xml" />
</ElementManifests>
<Properties>
<Property Key="GloballyAvailable" Value="true" />

<!-- Value for RegisterForms key indicates the path to the forms relative to feature file location -->
<!-- if you don't have forms, use *.xsn -->
<Property Key="RegisterForms" Value="*.xsn" />
</Properties>
</Feature>

workflow.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!-- _lcid="1033" _version="12.0.3015" _dal="1" -->
<!-- _LocalBinding -->

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<Workflow
Name="addIT_wf"
Description="*** workflow"
Id="C9247A1E-32BA-4d9d-B10A-220883FA7BA4"
CodeBesideClass="SignatureWorkflow.Workflow1"
CodeBesideAssembly="SignatureWorkflow, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b3c120ebabbe0bfa"
TaskListContentTypeId="0x01080100C9C9515DE4E24001905074F980F93160"
AssociationUrl="_layouts/CstWrkflIP.aspx"
InstantiationUrl="_layouts/IniWrkflIP.aspx"
ModificationUrl="_layouts/ModWrkflIP.aspx"
StatusUrl="_layouts/WrkStat.aspx">

<Categories/>
<!-- Tags to specify InfoPath forms for the workflow; delete tags for forms that you do not have -->
<MetaData>
<!-- <Association_FormURN>associationFormURN</Association_FormURN>
<Instantiation_FormURN>instantiationFormURN</Instantiation_FormURN>
<Task0_FormURN>taskFormURN</Task0_FormURN>

<Modification_GUID_FormURN>modificationURN</Modification_GUID_FormURN>
<Modification_GUID_Name>Name of Modification</Modification_GUID_Name>
-->
<AssociateOnActivation>true</AssociateOnActivation>
</MetaData>
</Workflow>
</Elements>

hope that someone can help me...