An approach I've used when trying to get my classes decorated correctly when deserializing is to use XSD. Exe to generate c# classes based on the XSD, then compare the decoration to my own class. On more than one occasion it has shed light on issues.
Set the Namespace property of your XmlRoot attribute according to the namespace of the XML element.
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