Why the action buttons are not working?
Can you try to use:

drupal_render_children($form),

remove "actions". and hide all redundant elements :) 

As second approach, you can 

  echo render( $form['form_id']);
  echo render( $form['form_build_id']);
  echo render( $form['form_token']);
  echo render( $form['options']['status']);


in the beginning of the template file
Regards