Thanks, it turns out that my issues were being caused by a mismatch of versions. I was using a template that was created with Quest Web Parts 5.6 while I was trying to deploy the template to a environment that was using Quest Web Parts 5.5. In 5.5 Quest web parts are scoped at the Web Level, in 5.6 at the Site level (which is much better). Also the associated guid for the QWP feature is different. Once I upgraded, my template deployed fine using my auto site creation workflow. Thanks for all your help.