Custom faces component not rendering at runtime

I'm new to the JSF Framework. So I thought that starting a custom component/tag library would be a good start to jump in and get familiar with it. My goal is to have a project separate from my web-apps that I could compile into a jar which I could include wherever I needed it. So I started simple with two projects: the first is the custom tags project, the second is a simple webapp using jsf / facelets / seam which I am running in a Tomcat 5.5 container.
I've included the complete projects in a zip file here: http://burtoncarl.com/share/CustomProof.zip
I build the components project with ant and include it in the /WEB-INF/lib folder of the web project. But when I open a browser to the web app it doesn't render my tag at all. It leaves my new tag in the rendered HTML which leads me to believe that the parser isn't matching my taglib or something.
And of course I get no errors in any of the log files.
ANY help would be appreciated...

It sounds like the component library is not registered on the page. Assuming you are using facelets, did you define an xmlns for it? E.g. see the definition for the tomahawk library below within the facelet xhtml file:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"
      xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
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</html>You also need to tell facelets about the library in the web.xml:
    
    <context-param>
        <param-name>facelets.LIBRARIES</param-name>
        <param-value>
            /WEB-INF/tomahawk.taglib.xml
        </param-value>
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