The system should have a setting that disables the system ACL security (lifecycle) being applied to the Files on State change or the Folder ACL security should be able to be set to override the State security.
At present I believe that the only way to achieve this is to manually deselect the Security Override option on the File details security tab:
The Application should provide this option in the administration settings
i.e. if configured automatically resets the file to its original object based security after any state change.
No need to Combine ACL Security, just need a simple on / off to the system security overiding the folder security.
Please Please Please...........