diff --git a/sea/plugin.jelly b/sea/plugin.jelly
index 94165c09..c8cc0324 100644
--- a/sea/plugin.jelly
+++ b/sea/plugin.jelly
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
       />
       
       <filter token="NOTICE" value="${pom.name} v${pom.currentVersion} - starting installation... please wait"/>
-      <filter token="WORK_DIR" value="${pom.currentVersion}"/>
+      <filter token="WORK_DIR" value="${pom.artifactId}-${pom.currentVersion}"/>
       
       <copy 
         file="${pom.getPluginContext('maven-sea-plugin').getVariable('plugin.resources')}/sea-header"
diff --git a/sea/src/plugin-resources/sea-header b/sea/src/plugin-resources/sea-header
index 751f946c..71f6ff09 100644
--- a/sea/src/plugin-resources/sea-header
+++ b/sea/src/plugin-resources/sea-header
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ echo ""
 
 # create a temp directory to extract to.
 #export WRKDIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/selfextract.XXXXXX`
-export WORK_DIR="@WORKDIR@"
+export WORK_DIR="@WORK_DIR@"
 mkdir $WORK_DIR
 
 SKIP=`awk '/^__ARCHIVE_FOLLOWS__/ { print NR + 1; exit 0; }' $0`