Abject failure continued 2

After trawling mailing lists again, I finally stumbled across this : 

http://grokbase.com/p/hadoop/common-dev/1188pq2p5h/vote-release-0-20-204-0-rc0

The useful part:

I hit this one too. If you look at that test case, you'll see it has an@Ignore on it. For some unknown reason, when you use ant 1.8.2 junit doesthe wrong thing. Use ant 1.7.1 and the test cases will be properly ignored.
-- Owen

To coin Bobby Boucher....."that information would have been useful yesterday!!!!!"

Finally stumbled around installing ant 1.7.1 and re-running ant test.

A few more hours to go....