Sharepoint Foundation 2010 Workflows created in Sharepoint Designer

Using Sharepoint Designer 2010 (64 bit) on Sharepoint Foundation 2010 (free version)
I'm trying to get some basic workflows I've designed against a list in SPD working. They effectively just email a user the list item is assigned to based on some simple conditional checks.
I've deployed the workflow and its set to activate on item creation and item update.
Now I have checked the following already:
- App pool for SP site is running under its own service account (not System)
- I am the primary site collection administrator. 
I'm getting this error in the log file: Unexpected
AutoStart Workflow: System.ArgumentException: The requested workflow task content type was not found on the SPWeb. 
On further research it was suggested I didn't have OffWFCommon as a feature but this isn't part of Sharepoint Foundation 2010 so I'm pretty confused. The directory doesn't exist to install this feature.
Can Sharepoint Foundation 2010 actually use workflows created in SPD?
Any solutions or anything I've missed?

Hello,
Approval WF template is not supported in foundation so use collect data from user WF in designer.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/meacoex/archive/2010/11/01/get-manager-approval-in-sharepoint-designer-2010-step-by-step.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/c42b91eb-0ac6-4144-a5b9-91c451058d13/approval-workflow-in-sharepoint-foundation-2010?forum=sharepointcustomizationprevious
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