I'm having an issue trying to generate the jar file.  I noticed a
slight deviation of my setup as I'm running JDK 1.6.0_24 rather than
1.5 is that the problem?

I've got the rest of the prerequisites. Here's what happens: Starting
from a fresh pull from the incubator-cordova-android repository on
github

1. cd to the framework directory and run
android update project -p . -t android-15
    I get:
Updated project.properties
Updated local.properties
build.xml: Found version-tag: custom. File will not be updated.
Added file ./proguard.cfg

2. run ant jar
   I get:
Buildfile: build.xml

BUILD FAILED
/home/marlin/incubator-cordova-android/framework/build.xml:56: The
<property> type doesn't support nested text data (""").

Total time: 0 seconds

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Marlin