Today I tried to use google maps api v2 for Android 2.3.3 My steps:
<fragment> should be in all lowercase.
<fragment>
Also, you are using Activity (not FragmentActivity) with SupportMapFragment, and I doubt that combination will work.
Activity
FragmentActivity
SupportMapFragment
Check if the target Google SDK version in the project.properties and the support lib(Android.jar) versions are the same.