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I think we can stop with the spoiler tags - the thread is titled spoilers, and by now if you haven't read the book (twice) you're probably not going to.
The whole book series has been based around the idea that Harry must kill Voldemort, or vice versa. Actually if you strip the book down to its bare plot, we're dealing with Star Wars here. Luke has to kill vader, but Obi Wan is a much more powerful jedi, so it wouldn't make sense for Luke to kill Vader unless you get Obi Wan out of the way.
Same thing with this book. Dumbledore is far more powerful than Harry, and he doesn't want his students in danger. Logically Dumbledore would be the one to go after Voldemort. So if Harry is the one that has to do it, we have to get Dumbledore out of the way.
That tells me he's really dead.
I think Snape is, while perhaps conflicted about it, working for Voldemort. To use a bad chess analogy, you don't kill the red queen in order to save the black pawn. If snape were on the good side, he wouldn't want to lose their most powerful wizard just to save Draco. Not only does Draco have unfortunate dark leanings, but he's also not that great of a wizard. Dumbledore seems to be a huge strategic sacrifice just to save someone that, by all appearances anyway, can't help in the fight against Voldemort.
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