diff --git a/repository/plugin.jelly b/repository/plugin.jelly
index 54a201aa..0838ea96 100644
--- a/repository/plugin.jelly
+++ b/repository/plugin.jelly
@@ -80,32 +80,6 @@
       </repository:exec>
     </define:tag>
 
-    <!--
-     ! test if a file exists in the remote repo
-     ! @param name the file to check
-     ! @param var the variable to set to true or false
-     !-->
-    <define:tag name="fileExists">
-       <exec dir="." executable="${maven.ssh.executable}" resultproperty="result">
-         <arg line='-l ${maven.username} ${maven.repo.central} "test -f ${name}"'/>
-       </exec>
-       <ant:echo>Result from ssh is '${result}'</ant:echo>
-       <j:set var="${var}" scope="parent" value="${result == '0'}"/>
-    </define:tag>
-
-    <!--
-     ! test if a directory exists in the remote repo
-     ! @param name the directory to check
-     ! @param var the variable to set to true or false
-     !-->
-    <define:tag name="directoryExists">
-       <exec dir="." executable="${maven.ssh.executable}" resultproperty="result">
-         <arg line='-l ${maven.username} ${maven.repo.central} "test -d ${name}"'/>
-       </exec>
-       <ant:echo>Result from ssh is '${result}'</ant:echo>
-       <j:set var="${var}" scope="parent" value="${result == '0'}"/>
-    </define:tag>
-
     <!--
      ! place the file name portion of a url into a variable
      ! @param url the URL to process
@@ -294,30 +268,13 @@
      </x:forEach>
   </goal>
 
-  <goal name="repository:audit-copy-poms" 
-    description="">
-    
-    <repository:directoryExists var="central"
-      name="${maven.repo.central.directory}" />
-    <ant:echo>central = '${central}'</ant:echo>
-    <repository:fileExists var="ant151"
-      name="${maven.repo.central.directory}/ant/jars/ant-1.5.1.jar" />
-    <ant:echo>ant151 = '${ant151}'</ant:echo>
-    <repository:directoryExists var="badcentral"
-      name="${maven.repo.central.directory}/grunk" />
-    <ant:echo>badcentral = '${badcentral}'</ant:echo>
-    <repository:fileExists var="ant171"
-      name="${maven.repo.central.directory}/ant/jars/ant-1.7.1.jar" />
-    <ant:echo>ant171 = '${ant171}'</ant:echo>
-
-  </goal>
-   
   <goal name="repository:audit-generate-poms"
     description="generate a pom for all the groupId's in the audit file">
 
     <repository:parseAudit var="audit"/>
      <x:forEach var="project" select="$audit/licenses/project">
        <j:set var="group"><x:expr select="$project/groupId"/></j:set>
+       <j:set var="groupId" value="${group}"/>
        <ant:echo>Creating pom for ${group}</ant:echo>
        <x:set var="url" select="string($project/url)"/>
        <x:set var="comments" select="string($project/comments)"/>