BPM 11g - Making comments visible to all interactive activities in process

Does anyone know of a way to make comments from one interactive activity visible in a subsequent interactive activity within the same process?
We need this visibility since there are multiple human tasks in the process and the comments are relevant to the instance as a whole as it travels through the process.
I've attempted to create a process data object of type "TaskExecutionData" and use that to map the comments in and out of the data associations for the interactive activities, but ran into bpel faults. The first attempt just used simple data association mappings for the execData.userComment collection (array) - but that results in assignment errors at runtime if there are no comments present. Having seen these errors before and having resolved them using a XSL transformation, I tried that route as well to map the userComment collection using a for-each construct - however that attempt resulted in a different bpel fault at runtime referring to duplicate definitions of the same type or something to that effect.
Any ideas?

Yes, but this is in version 11g, not 10g or 6. The human tasks use the ADF task flows, as is standard practice in 11g.
I've attempted mapping the userComment array from the task's execData to process variables, but that effort resulted in bpel faults at runtime.
I managed a roundabout way (i.e. a hack) to get the comments into the new task from the previous one using the human workflow services API in a managed bean of the task flow, but I'm having difficulty getting the comment iterator of the data control to update and pull in the comments.

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