Work flow problem

Hello all

i am also facing same problem in work flow
i have create publishing work flow with state as draft,review,rework,unpublished and published and created a n action for that my question is if i change the state from unpublished to publish state why the content remains in not published state weather i am doing wrong thing or should we click on publish in publishing option inorder to publish the content please any one could suggest an idea how to do automating publishing and un publishing of content using work flow

thanks and regards