For the issue where published "snapshots" did not appear in the Nexus repository with timestamp postfixes to files, I did find a sort of "best practice" guideline that validates this behavior.
A response on Stack Overflow seemed to support "non-unique" snapshots: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1243574/how-to-stop-maven-artifactory-from-keeping-snapshots-with-timestamps So maybe not having timestamped snapshots is okay after all. It doesn't quite answer the question I originally posted but I'm fine with this behavior now (unless someone has some other suggestion/input). Also, I guess for now I'm just going to have to implement two IVY files, one for the snapshots and one for the releases (since I need two different pom files when publishing). If there is a better way please let me know. :) Thanks!
