diff --git a/proposal/mutant/src/java/antcore/org/apache/ant/antcore/modelparser/ProjectHandler.java b/proposal/mutant/src/java/antcore/org/apache/ant/antcore/modelparser/ProjectHandler.java
index e30b55a28..7b37970a6 100644
--- a/proposal/mutant/src/java/antcore/org/apache/ant/antcore/modelparser/ProjectHandler.java
+++ b/proposal/mutant/src/java/antcore/org/apache/ant/antcore/modelparser/ProjectHandler.java
@@ -173,17 +173,13 @@ public class ProjectHandler extends ModelElementHandler {
             } catch (ModelException e) {
                 throw new SAXParseException(e.getMessage(), getLocator(), e);
             }
-        } else if (localName != null) {
+        } else {
             // everything else is a task
             BuildElementHandler buildElementHandler = new BuildElementHandler();
             buildElementHandler.start(getParseContext(), getXMLReader(),
                 this, getLocator(), attributes, getElementSource(),
                 qualifiedName);
             project.addTask(buildElementHandler.getBuildElement());
-        } else {
-          // ignore namespaced elements
-          throw new SAXParseException("namespace support is not "
-            + "currently recognized (" + qualifiedName + ")", getLocator());
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/proposal/mutant/src/java/init/org/apache/ant/init/InitConfig.java b/proposal/mutant/src/java/init/org/apache/ant/init/InitConfig.java
index b21299164..bfe8dd57d 100755
--- a/proposal/mutant/src/java/init/org/apache/ant/init/InitConfig.java
+++ b/proposal/mutant/src/java/init/org/apache/ant/init/InitConfig.java
@@ -116,11 +116,12 @@ public class InitConfig {
     /**
      * Constructor for the Initialization configuration
      *
+     * @param libraryClass - a class loaded from the Ant library area.
      * @exception InitException if the configuration cannot be initialized
      */
-    public InitConfig() throws InitException {
+    public InitConfig(Class libraryClass) throws InitException {
         try {
-            URL antLibURL = getAntLibURL();
+            URL antLibURL = getAntLibURL(libraryClass);
             setLibraryURL(antLibURL);
 
             URL antHome = new URL(antLibURL, "..");
@@ -331,12 +332,13 @@ public class InitConfig {
     /**
      * Get a URL to the Ant Library directory.
      *
+     * @param libraryClass - a class loaded from the Ant library area.
      * @return the URL for the Ant library directory
      * @throws MalformedURLException if there is a problem constructing the 
      *      library URL
      */
-    private URL getAntLibURL() throws MalformedURLException {
-        URL initClassURL = ClassLocator.getClassLocationURL(getClass());
+    private URL getAntLibURL(Class libraryClass) throws MalformedURLException {
+        URL initClassURL = ClassLocator.getClassLocationURL(libraryClass);
 
         String initURLString = initClassURL.toString();
         int index = initURLString.lastIndexOf("/");
diff --git a/proposal/mutant/src/java/start/org/apache/ant/start/Main.java b/proposal/mutant/src/java/start/org/apache/ant/start/Main.java
index 2ae986c1f..7b5eef3f6 100755
--- a/proposal/mutant/src/java/start/org/apache/ant/start/Main.java
+++ b/proposal/mutant/src/java/start/org/apache/ant/start/Main.java
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ public class Main {
     public void start(String frontend, String defaultClass, String[] args)
          throws InitException {
         try {             
-            InitConfig config = new InitConfig();
+            InitConfig config = new InitConfig(getClass());
     
             URL frontendJar = new URL(config.getLibraryURL(),
                 "frontend/" + frontend + ".jar");
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ public class Main {
             if (frontendJar.getProtocol().equals("file")) {
                 File jarFile = new File(frontendJar.getFile());
                 if (!jarFile.exists()) {
-                    throw new InitException("Could not jar for frontend \"" 
-                        + frontend + "\"");
+                    throw new InitException("Could not find jar for frontend \""
+                        + frontend + "\" - expected at " + frontendJar);
                 }
             }
             String mainClass = getMainClass(frontendJar);