Hi Wroot,
I think I figured it out. Here is what I did. After trying what you suggested I got the same results. The system hung like before. So this is what seemed to work for me....
I uninstalled and deleted the openfire directory from the new server. I copied the entire openfire directory from the old server and then ran the command to install openfire as a service on the new server. Started the service and was able to login with no issues. Then with openfire running I ran the openfire installer. Installer ran fin, Started the openfire service...wait a few minutes and was able to login and all seems good. I am going to some testing tomorrow to make sure it's working. Thank you for you advice and help on this.