Restarting a BPM after triggering an alert

Hi all,
is there any way to resume a BPM in the exact point where it failed, but having thrown an alert also?
My scenario is a chain of steps (transformations and web service calls). If it fails, there is an exception branch which will throw an alert with the exact cause of error.
The problem is that the status of the BPM after this is not ERROR, it's COMPLETED (or CANCELLED if you cancel the process after throwing the alert). So I think it can't be restarted at the exact transformation step where it failed. The hole scenario must be reprocessed.
Isn't this a serious flaw in the ccBPM?
PD: I've checked this blog, /people/krishna.moorthyp/blog/2006/04/08/reconciliation-of-messages-in-bpm, but I think it's terrible to have to repeat every step in the exception branch (I mean, I would have to have an exception branch for each step, and repeat the same step in the exception branch. It would not be a good design).
Thanks!

Hi Jorge,
I am also having the same problem. My BPM consists of a series of transformation steps, block steps and send steps.
After reading the blog as you mentioned above, i was thinking how can i repeat each step in the exceptional branch.
Can somebody help with the ideas of the exceptional handling in the case where we have series of different steps. any suggestions would be appreciated
Thanks,
Raj

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