Time Based workflow not working

Hi,
I am facing issue in time based workflow. I designed a worflow with two actions. Wait action is the first action and second action is send email. For send email the from address is current user and TO is owner of the record. One thing I noticed is that its working fine when "I" triggered the workflow and assign owner as "me". Its not trigerring the mail when owner is somebody else. I can see the instance with the following error message in the workflow monitor. "The buscomp Service Request is no longer valid for workflow name ********. The workflow instance ******* has terminated."
Edited by: user11100286 on Oct 1, 2010 4:33 PM

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