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regarding 4) I'm currently working on worklfow-ng (https://more.zites.net/node/3030), which will be capable of multiple workflows per node type.
It uses the states (API) module as "flagging system", what basically a simple attribute system for nodes & users - but it's designed for state machines so there is only one state per attribute possible, code (http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/fago/workflow-ng/)