User change attribute workflow with approval problem

Hello,
I have a requirement to add account numbers to user entry through workflow with approval process. and also same user can have multiple account numbers. when approver approves the User request then it's account number will be added into the user entity in ldap.
So, i have created a Change Attribute workflow for that account number with these steps as : initiate, Approval, Commit, Error_report
this workflow i am able to invoke through IdentityXML call and from OIM interfaces approvers able to approve and that account number is persisting under the User entity.
Problem is: Actually above request is staging system. when user requests, it is in initiate step, when approver approves the request then only commits the info. so, there are 2 stages here.
When i am requesting two consecutive account number requests then both requests are in initial stage. Then approver approves the 1st request then it is persisting into User entity. after that approver approves the 2nd request then this account number is overwriting the previous one. so, here is the problem i am finding. worflow is not adding the new account number.. instead its replacing the last value in the list of account numbers for an User entity.
I hope the above problem make understandable..
Really its a very much helpful to find the solution on this.
Thanks in advance,
Srini.

Thanks for the help. Having reinstalled OID/OAM a bunch of times to properly add our custom user object, nothing seems absurd. I tried running through your steps, but I'm still not getting the workflow button. I've customized create and delete workflows properly, but the change attribute is a mystery.
I did the following:
1) Selected a custom attribute in Attribute Access Control
2) Changed its read access to Anyone
3) Saved
4) Changed its modify access to Anyone
5) Saved
6) Added a new Change Attribute workflow for the custom attribute
7) Action #1: Request, added Anyone as participant and saved
8) Action #2: External Action, selected attribute is the custom one
9) Action #3: Commit
10) Saved and enabled the workflow
11) Restarted the Identity server
12) Picked a user
13) Opened his user profile
14) Clicked Modify
The custom attribute is still editable and has no Request a Change button.

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