Hi Maciej,
I'm considering this answered on my part. I didn't start the thread however so I didn't mark it as answered.
I deleted all of the DB tables and created a second datasource and DB user to use for the task persistence. Once I restarted jboss I was able to go through the quickstart steps. The errors are still in the log file though which bothers me a bit. I don't know if it was corrupted data as you suggested or the use of seperate tables that fixed things.
One thing I noticed is that for each war file startup there is this error:
Encountered invalid class name "org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser,org.xmlpull.mxp1_serializer.MXSerializer" for service type "org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory"
I don't know if that has anything to do with the "deserialize KnowledgeDefinitionsPackage" or the invalid class exception for org.drools.ruleMVELDialectRuntimeData errors.
I really appreciate all of your helping me work through this.
Cheers,
Jim