building data entry forms (with validation) into my workflow

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I'm new to Drupal. I'm hoping to use it to build a workflow management application wherein privileged users can define perhaps a dozen forms to collect data from a large, distributed group of users. Each of these forms will experience some edits, changes of state, etc as they get processed by the workflow.

Can anyone tell me how this might work in drupal? Obviously I'll need the worfklow module installed. I've seen a 'form builder' module but it has a big warning about not being suitable for a production environment:
http://drupal.org/project/form_builder

I'd really appreciate any advice about this. I'm in the process of installing Drupal 6 now along with the workflow module. The building of custom forms is still something of a mystery. It's not really clear to me how I might enable users to build custom forms (and the corresponding custom database tables I suppose) and then offer some reporting functionality and workflow management within drupal. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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