SharePoint Designer Workflow 'Failed on Start', SP Logs has WorkflowValidationFailedException, works ok when recycle IIS App Pool and restart

Hi there,
I know there are a lot of posts about "Failed to Start" errors, but I have yet to see one that describes our problem.
We have workflows built with SharePoint Designer 2007
Normally these workflows start ok and work completely
Occasionally though they will all fail to start, instead showing "Failed on Start (retrying)" in the Workflow Status and the following exception in the SP Logs:
01/16/2015 15:43:27.28 w3wp.exe (0x15D4) 0x1A00 Windows SharePoint Services Workflow Infrastructure 936l High Engine RunWorkflow: System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Compiler.WorkflowValidationFailedException: The workflow failed validation. at System.Workflow.Runtime.WorkflowDefinitionDispenser.ValidateDefinition(Activity root, Boolean isNewType, ITypeProvider typeProvider) at System.Workflow.Runtime.WorkflowDefinitionDispenser.LoadRootActivity(Type workflowType, Boolean createDefinition, Boolean initForRuntime) at System.Workflow.Runtime.WorkflowDefinitionDispenser.GetRootActivity(Type workflowType, Boolean createNew, Boolean initForRuntime) at System.Workflow.Runtime.WorkflowRuntime.InitializeExecutor(Guid instanceId, CreationContext context, WorkflowExecutor executor, WorkflowInstance workflowInstance) at System.Workflow.Runtime.WorkflowRuntime.Load(Guid key, CreationContext con...
01/16/2015 15:43:27.28* w3wp.exe (0x15D4) 0x1A00 Windows SharePoint Services Workflow Infrastructure 936l High ...text, WorkflowInstance workflowInstance) at System.Workflow.Runtime.WorkflowRuntime.GetWorkflowExecutor(Guid instanceId, CreationContext context) at System.Workflow.Runtime.WorkflowRuntime.InternalCreateWorkflow(CreationContext context, Guid instanceId) at System.Workflow.Runtime.WorkflowRuntime.CreateWorkflow(Type workflowType, Dictionary`2 namedArgumentValues, Guid instanceId) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWinOeHostServices.Send(SPWinOeWorkflow winoeworkflow, SPWorkflowEvent e) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWinOeEngine.RunWorkflow(Guid trackingId, SPWorkflowHostService host, SPWorkflow workflow, Collection`1 events, TimeSpan timeOut)
What is strange, is that if I recycle the App Pool for the SharePoint site and then restart the workflows, they all work fine for a time. Until the next time they don't =)
The workflows must be configured ok since they do work complete at time, but I wonder if there is something with the memory usage of the app pool or something that is being re-compiled when the App Pool is recycled
The App Pool is set to recycle nightly, and when virtual memory > 1700MB or memory > 1000MB
Is anyone able to shed any light on this problem?? Or what steps I can take to debug the problem further.
Thanks in advance
Miguel Clark =)

Hi Sudip,
Thanks for the link.
The workflows in question are SharePoint Designer workflows using standard actions, so unsure exactly how to check the 'correlation tokens' and 'DLLs', plus the workflow works fine as soon as I recycle the IIS App Pool, so do not see how these could be the
problem
As to the 'lodctr' commands, we have tried these in the past, to no effect. Though may try them again next time the issue comes up just to see if it does the same thing as recycling the app pool.
My big question here is "why would it suddenly work after recycling the app pool??" I feel like it must be something memory related, since recycling the app pool releases the resources used by the IIS worker process.
Miguel =)

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