Maven-war-plugin not installing war. Installs ".jar" and renames it to ".war"

[Dave Rathnow]

I'm sorry to clutter this list with this question but I've asked the
user's list and got no useful responses.
 
I'm trying to use the maven-war-plugin to install a war into my local
repository.  "mvn clean install" runs fine and says it complete
succesfully.  If I look under the "target" directory in the project
folder, there is, amoung other things, a .jar and .war file.  Both have
been built properly.  If I look in my local repository, there is a .war
file but when I open it, it is actually the .jar file renamed to .war.
 
Does anyone have any suggestions what may be happening? My pom is below.
 
Thanks,
Dave.
 
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";>
 <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 <parent>
  <groupId>fdexec</groupId>
  <artifactId>fdexec</artifactId>
  <version>4.8.0</version>
  <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
 </parent>
 <artifactId>httpbridge</artifactId>
 <version>${parent.version}</version>
 <packaging>war</packaging>
 <name>fdexec::httpbridge</name>
 <description>HTTP Bridge</description>
 
 <scm>
 
<connection>scm:svn:http://elmer/svn/umsrepo/trunk/fdexec/Applications</
connection>
  <url>scm:svn:http://elmer/svn/umsrepo/trunk/fdexec/Applications</url>
 </scm>
 
 <build>
  <finalName>httpbridge</finalName>
  <plugins>
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
     <excludes>
      <exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
     </excludes>
    </configuration>
   </plugin>
   <plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
     <source>1.5</source>
     <target>1.5</target>
    </configuration>
   </plugin>
  </plugins>
 </build>
 <dependencies>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
   <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
   <version>2.4</version>
   <scope>provided</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>fdexec</groupId>
   <artifactId>bridge</artifactId>
   <version>4.8.0</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>fdexec</groupId>
   <artifactId>bridge</artifactId>
   <version>4.8.0</version>
   <type>test-jar</type>
   <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
 </dependencies>
 
</project>