diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 6ee213f..d3c8b82 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -11,12 +11,11 @@
   </target>
   
   <target name="compile" depends="init" description="compile bukkit plugin source">
-    <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}" classpath="${bukkit-lib}">
-    </javac>
+    <javac includeantruntime="false" srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}" classpath="${bukkit-lib}" />
   </target>
     
   <target name="gendocs" description="Generate API documentation">
-    <javac srcdir="src/docs/java"/>
+    <javac includeantruntime="false" srcdir="src/docs/java"/>
     <java classname="jscript" failonerror="true" fork="true" output="docs/api.md">
       <classpath>
         <pathelement path="src/docs/java"/>      
@@ -32,11 +31,13 @@
 
   <target name="package" depends="gendocs,zip_js,compile" 
           description="generate the distribution" >
+    <!-- ensure plugin.yml is always copied -->
+    <delete file="${build}/plugin.yml" />
     <copy file="src/main/resources/plugin.yml" todir="${build}"/>
     <replace file="${build}/plugin.yml" value="${bukkit-version}-${DSTAMP}">
       <replacetoken>[[version]]</replacetoken>
     </replace>
-
+    
     <!-- Put everything in ${build} into the MyProject-${DSTAMP}.jar file -->
     <jar jarfile="${dist}/scriptcraft-${bukkit-version}-${DSTAMP}.jar" basedir="${build}"/>
   </target>