[rules-users] AgendaFilter not working as expected

I have many rules in which I have named the various rules by the level at which the rules are to be fired, for instance: rule "LevelOne: Name cannot be null" when Person(firstNm == null) then <log an error> end rule "LevelTwo: Street cannot be null" when Person(street== null) then <log an error> end Within my Java code I first insert all objects into a statefulSession, then add all my globals. I then use a switch statement to call different methods to perform the various levels of validation (ie: performLevelOneValidation(), performLevelTwoValidation(), etc.). Each of these methods calls a common method, performValidation(String validationLevel) which I want to use to fire the rules of just the validation level supplied. I am doing this with: statefulSession.fireAllRules(new RuleNameStartsWithAgendaFilter (validationLevel)); In some cases I need to perform multiple levels of validation (if anything over Level One validation is called, all preceding levels also need to be validated) and need to perform them in order for reporting purposes. My code correctly calls my performaValidation() method with the correct validationLevel but the only rules that fire are those with "LevelOne" in the rule name. I know the data, the rules, the globals, etc are all present for firing rules in a level other than level one and that I should get some mathces to my rules but I am not getting anything to match outside of Level One. I can only assume that the rules other than Level One are not firing and that I am missing something within my code that fires the rules for other levels. Am I misunderstanding how the AgendaFilter works? Should I be using something else like agenda-group to accomplish this segregation of rules? Also, my rules and data objects do not change as the rules are run. I simply display a list of errors found. Would it benefit me to use sequential mode and would this help me in trying to segerate the rules into various levels? Thanks in advance, Brian Enderle