Get MIME type of file returns application/octet-stream for all but txt

Eclipse 3.3.1.1, JRE 1.6.0_03, Tomcat 6.0, webwork 2.2.4
I've created a test upload/view file page. I can successfully upload and return the file to view. However, the content type is always application/octet-stream except for txt.
String contentType = new MimetypesFileTypeMap().getContentType(filename);
System.out.println("contenttype for " + filename + ": "+contentType);I created mime.types in my META-INF for tomcat and populated it, but it doesn't change anything. Uploading an mp3 should return the audio/mpeg3 I have in mime.types:
audio/mpeg3                         mp3
I verified that it is in /wtpwebapps/MyApp/META-INF/
My web.xml even has it:
    <mime-mapping>
        <extension>mp3</extension>
        <mime-type>audio/mpeg3</mime-type>
    </mime-mapping>Am I missing something?

Darn it. The form gobbled up my mimeTypes.rdf code. Here it is again with the GT and LT symbols replaced with '+':
+RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:application/pdf2"/+
+RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:application/pdf2"
NC:fileExtensions="pdf"
NC:description="TonyTest PDF document"
NC:value="application/pdf2"
NC:editable="true"+
+NC:handlerProp RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:handler:application/pdf2"/+
+/RDF:Description+
+RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:handler:application/pdf2"
NC:alwaysAsk="true"
NC:saveToDisk="false"
NC:useSystemDefault="false"
NC:handleInternal="false"+
+NC:externalApplication RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/pdf2"/+
+/RDF:Description+
+RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/pdf2"
NC:path="/usr/bin/acroread"
NC:prettyName="acroread" /+

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