PDF Printing Carls Tutorial

All,
I have attempted to go through the Carl's tutorial on how to install Cocoon to use as a Print Server for Apex. I have watched his viewlet and attempted to build the WAR file. However, after I type 'Build WAR', the following is displayed in the prompt.
D:\prod\APEX_FOP\cocoon-2.1.10>build WAR
Buildfile: build.xml
BUILD FAILED
Target `WAR' does not exist in this project.
Total time: 0 seconds
What can be causing this issue?
{PR}
The tutorial that I am following is located here:
http://carlback.blogspot.com/2007/03/apex-cocoon-pdf-and-more.html

Carl,
I have been able to take a better look at what caused my issue.. My sitemap.xmap file was in /cocoon/fop_post/fop_post/. Once I moved the file to /cocoon/fop_post/, it worked.
I am now able to "Print" to PDF and Word, successfully however, when I try to print from Excel or HTML, I get a bunch of garbled characters in the files. Below is a small dump of both..
Excel
%PDF-1.3
%ª«¬
4 0 obj
<< /Type /Info
/Producer (FOP 0.20.5) >>
endobj
5 0 obj
<< /Length 6510 /Filter [ /ASCII85Decode /FlateDecode ]
>>
stream
Gatn,;01J]Q:Bd1.p+Y^1CrK<d/Y)4P[[CWRu52,rIJ_qk,p+j'B^Z<TL.(r;$TMI7]"nq43H6PO7qKmer/r`Y!`uYATuG\:+(cc`1PXV7p(@^\1s(L0sgW[JaS)pjR5Z0Ag(hSorkpD\m72QL1D^Qa'n&e7i&;*q'n055Y',Pr2[VT.$grh[P9(*uDq?dB&eql`<bE5(CDd\e+1=*C4-%SEm%5s7tub#hAF2[m*+3r:98Y=F^:gn7<DEO]KXh/D:X>!6sNsf>W7;n]g+
HTML
%PDF-1.3 %ª«¬ 4 0 obj << /Type /Info /Producer (FOP 0.20.5) >> endobj 5 0 obj << /Length 6510 /Filter [ /ASCII85Decode /FlateDecode ] >> stream Gatn,;01J]Q:Bd1.p+Y^1CrK!6sNsf>W7;n]g+3J).kdqU7Lm]'1=:n>F6T/oL^cnPS*]@UdT[d9EEMqgebE6qF&b)?#Vi+thqjf`-1rCJ!22EtG6#2/>6;&7_':/<#Jg\#oI>>[o,L"IpXV%h]tQ4ZbNl1-W6#Vcd\cpK9lpBAgfpL$p[CX#4E'mI'$R48!DS@]Z@:B!U$uY2/:upL4KG,gd#X\ZoTP`4"I@CbVl<807_j.!"o_\MNG"9IM"75-I?N~> endstream endobj 6 0 obj << /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 792 612 ] /Resources 3 0 R /Contents 5 0 R >> endobj 7 0 obj << /Length 5688 /Filter [ /ASCII85Decode /FlateDecode ] >> stream
Any suggestions?
{PR}

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