I found the solution. I move .jenkins to backup (ie. .jenkins.bak), restarted jenkins and let it recreate a new .jenkins directory. I recreated a new job, without errors, and move the .jenkins.bak back to .jenkins. This old .jenkins may be corrupt for some reason. Hope this helps anyone.
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