OWB / Workflow integration problem

We have a OWB 11g installation running on Windows 2003 64-bit Server.
We have 2 OWB databases, one design repository and one runtime repository.
Workflow is installed and configured on the runtime database.
Oracle Workflow Location is set to the runtime repository, and checks out ok.
OWF_MGR user is also created in the OWB Design Center, although Oracle documentation is very unclear on this; only stating that
+"6. Create a Workflow Proxy User.+
+When the Workflow instance is remote from the database hosting the Warehouse+
+Builder repository, you need to create a proxy-user.+
+Within the database hosting the repository, use SQL Plus to create a user and grant+
+it the OWB_USER role as a default. This enables the remote OWF instance to+
+connect to the services provided by the Control Center."+
We're able to deploy Process Flows from the design repository to the runtime rep, but when we try to execute them through workflow, the warehouse builder browser reports the following 3 errors:
R+PE-02075: Oracle Workflow failed to process the execution request for Activity LOAD_FP_INDEX:START1. This may be because dependent objects have not yet been deployed.+
ORA-20002: Failed to call "PFFPVSL_WB_RTI_WORKFLOW_UTIL".initialize. Please check that "EXECUTE ANY PROCEDURE" privilege is set and that the OWB Runtime is available. ORA-20009: User OWF_MGR does not have access to the workspace with name:OWBRTREP and owner:OWBRTREP. OWF_MGR must be registered to access the workspace by the administrator or owner of the workspace
WB_RT_WORKFLOW_UTIL_11G.Execute_Start(PFFPVSL, WB_IK_20090213_135803_19093, 366, RUN) Wf_Engine_Util.Function_Call(WB_RT_WORKFLOW_UTIL_11G.EXECUTE_START, PFFPVSL, WB_IK_20090213_135803_19093, 366, RUN)
We've done the EXECUTE ANY PROCEDURE on the OWF_MGR user. The OWF service_doctor.sql script reports that "There are errors in one or more PL/SQL packages and functions", but fails to say anything else - everything is loaded and seeded correctly.
But what we notice when comparing with our working 10g installation, is that the runtime repository target user (OWBRTREP) is totally empty of tables, views, procedures etc on the new runtime database, whereas it has about 250 tables and lots of other objects on the 10g installation. This user is created through the OWB 11g design center, so why is there such a difference? Has something gone wrong when creating the runtime workspace?
(It was created with the Repository Assistant, which we had some trouble with on the 64-bit server, but after some work it now seems to run ok, exiting with success message after creating workspace user.)
Regards,
-Haakon-

Haakon,
Lets assume you have two databases with OWB Repository A installed on database A and OWB repository B installed on database B.
Repository A - your Design repository
Repository B - your Runtime repository (this is your target schema / database)
I hope you have control centre service running under Repository B and you have installed OWF schema (usually OWF_MGR) under repository B.
I hope in your repository A you have created a new configuration and new control centre to point to repository B and that configuration is active.
Now logon to repository B using repository owner login and add OWF_MGR and other target databases as your target user under SECURITY/USERS.
Create similar users under repository A.
It works for us in OWB 10g but i dont know about 11G might be something related to WORKSPACE concept.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Sam.

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