jboss + portal + oracle = has issues

[richmlpdx]

1) describe your environment:
-> What JBoss version are you using: 4.0.3SP1
-> What JBoss Portal version are you using: 2.2.1 binaries
-> What database you are using with version number: Oracle 10g 10.2.0.1.0
-> What JDBC connector you are using: Oracle JDBC Driver for Oracle 10gR2
-> What jdk are you using: Sun jdk-1_5_0_6

2) describe the problem:
During initial port initialization I get errors creating the tables/views, etc.

00:13:36,625 WARN [JDBCExceptionReporter] SQL Error: 17068, SQLState: null
00:13:36,626 ERROR [JDBCExceptionReporter] Invalid argument(s) in call
00:13:36,626 ERROR [SchemaUpdate] could not complete schema update
org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: could not get table metadata: jbp_cms_cmsentry
 at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.handledNonSpecificException(SQLStateConverter.java:91)

00:13:38,097 INFO [SchemaUpdate] updating schema
00:13:38,098 INFO [Configuration] processing extends queue
00:13:38,099 INFO [Configuration] processing collection mappings
00:13:38,100 INFO [Configuration] processing association property references
00:13:38,101 INFO [Configuration] processing foreign key constraints
00:13:38,389 WARN [JDBCExceptionReporter] SQL Error: 17068, SQLState: null
00:13:38,411 ERROR [JDBCExceptionReporter] Invalid argument(s) in call
00:13:38,413 ERROR [SchemaUpdate] could not complete schema update
org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: could not get table metadata: jbp_cms_cmsentry

00:13:45,649 INFO [SchemaUpdate] fetching database metadata
00:13:45,662 INFO [SchemaUpdate] updating schema
00:13:45,666 INFO [Configuration] processing extends queue
00:13:45,667 INFO [Configuration] processing collection mappings
00:13:45,678 INFO [Configuration] processing association property references
00:13:45,685 INFO [Configuration] processing foreign key constraints
00:13:45,795 WARN [JDBCExceptionReporter] SQL Error: 17068, SQLState: null
00:13:45,796 ERROR [JDBCExceptionReporter] Invalid argument(s) in call
00:13:45,800 ERROR [SchemaUpdate] could not complete schema update
org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: could not get table metadata: jbp_cms_version_binval

00:13:46,558 INFO [NamingHelper] JNDI InitialContext properties:{}
00:13:46,560 INFO [SessionFactoryImpl] Checking 0 named queries
00:13:46,561 INFO [HibernatePersistenceManager] HibernateSessionFactory Created.
00:13:58,308 ERROR [[PortalServletWithPathMapping]] Servlet.service() for servlet PortalServletWithPathMapping threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.PersistentPortalObjectContainer.getObject(PersistentPortalObjectContainer.java:153)
 at org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.PersistentPortalObjectContainer.getContext(PersistentPortalObjectContainer.java:171)

I also get random messages like

Skipping aggresive-release due to open resources on batcher

Thanks for any insight,
Matt