Maven 2 build problems

I'm working on moving the code base for my recently Open Sourced project Arete to Maven 2 from 1.3 and I am genuinely unimpressed with the upgrade. I know that the maven project team put a lot of work into M2, but they should have hired an editor for their documentation.

In fact, I'll rewrite all of their documentation for them if they can help me figure out why my pom.xml is malformed. (Note, I'm sure it's something I've done wrong) When I run my tests, it seems as though the test classes cannot see my main classes. I started from their archetypal build and then added my .java source files to the appropriate locations. The package structure is fine. But the tests fail because they can't see the target/classes, unless I'm missing something.

In a situation like this, I'm supposed to scour the net for more information before I submit my pom.xml and snapshot of my source to their user mailing list. Hopefully someone there can help. I'll be sure to write down the results.