diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 92bbee4ac..329648267 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -929,19 +929,6 @@ DISTRIBUTION
     <delete dir="${dists.dir}" includeemptydirs="yes" quiet="yes" failonerror="no"/>
   </target>
 
-<!-- ===========================================================================
-DEPENDENCIES DISTRIBUTIONS
-============================================================================ -->
-
-  <target name="dist-deps.start" depends="dist.done"/>
-
-  <target name="dist-deps.msil" depends="dist-deps.start">
-    <ant antfile="${src.dir}/build/msil.xml" target="msil-dist.done"
-         inheritall="yes" inheritrefs="yes"/>
-  </target>
-
-  <target name="dist-deps.done" depends="dist-deps.msil"/>
-
 <!-- ===========================================================================
 TEST AND DISTRIBUTION BUNDLE (ALL)
 ============================================================================ -->
@@ -1005,15 +992,19 @@ FORWARDED TARGETS FOR JVM 1.4 BUILD
 FORWARDED TARGETS FOR MSIL BUILD
 ============================================================================ -->
 
-  <target name="msil" depends="msil-pack.done"
-          description="Builds the Scala-MSIL package. Executables are in 'build/msil-pack/bin'."/>
-
-  <target name="msil-pack.done" depends="pack.done">
+  <target name="msil" depends="pack.done"
+          description="Builds the Scala-MSIL package. Executables are in 'build/msil-pack/bin'.">
     <ant antfile="${src.dir}/build/msil.xml" target="msil-pack.done" inheritall="yes" inheritrefs="yes"/>
   </target>
 
+  <target name="msiltest"/>
+
+  <target name="msildist" depends="pack.done">
+    <ant antfile="${src.dir}/build/msil.xml" target="msil-all.done" inheritall="yes" inheritrefs="yes"/>
+  </target>
+
   <target name="msilclean">
-    <ant antfile="${src.dir}/build/msil.xml" target="msil.clean" inheritall="yes" inheritrefs="yes"/>
+    <ant antfile="${src.dir}/build/msil.xml" target="msil-all.clean" inheritall="yes" inheritrefs="yes"/>
   </target>
 
 <!-- ===========================================================================
@@ -1028,6 +1019,10 @@ FORWARDED TARGETS FOR PACKAGING
     <ant antfile="${src.dir}/build/pack.xml" target="fourpack-all.done" inheritall="yes" inheritrefs="yes"/>
   </target>
 
+  <target name="msildistpack" depends="msildist">
+    <ant antfile="${src.dir}/build/pack.xml" target="msilpack-all.done" inheritall="yes" inheritrefs="yes"/>
+  </target>
+
 <!-- ===========================================================================
 FORWARDED TARGETS FOR NIGHTLY BUILDS
 ============================================================================ -->
@@ -1040,8 +1035,11 @@ FORWARDED TARGETS FOR NIGHTLY BUILDS
     <ant antfile="${src.dir}/build/four.xml" target="four-all.done" inheritall="yes" inheritrefs="yes"/>
     <ant antfile="${src.dir}/build/pack.xml" target="fourpack-all.done" inheritall="yes" inheritrefs="yes"/>
   </target>
-  
-  <target name="msilnightly"/>
+
+  <target name="msilnightly" depends="pack.done">
+    <ant antfile="${src.dir}/build/four.xml" target="msil-all.done" inheritall="yes" inheritrefs="yes"/>
+    <ant antfile="${src.dir}/build/pack.xml" target="msilpack-all.done" inheritall="yes" inheritrefs="yes"/>
+  </target>
 
 <!-- ===========================================================================
 MISCELLANEOUS
diff --git a/src/build/four.xml b/src/build/four.xml
index bc59288f0..ba8e28bae 100644
--- a/src/build/four.xml
+++ b/src/build/four.xml
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ DISTRIBUTION
     <symlink link="${dists.dir}/latest-jvm4" resource="${four-dist.dir}" overwrite="yes"/>
   </target>
   
-  <target name="four-dist.done" depends="four-dist.src"/>
+  <target name="four-dist.done" depends="four-dist.latest"/>
 
 <!-- ===========================================================================
 TEST AND DISTRIBUTION BUNDLE (ALL)
diff --git a/src/build/msil.xml b/src/build/msil.xml
index 9bdecba16..916790830 100644
--- a/src/build/msil.xml
+++ b/src/build/msil.xml
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ MSIL BUILD
       <include name="**/*.scala"/>
       <exclude name="scala/ScalaObject.scala"/>
     </scalac>
-    <stopwatch name="four.lib.timer" action="total"/>
+    <stopwatch name="msil.lib.timer" action="total"/>
   </target>
 
   <target name="msil.done" depends="msil.lib"/>
@@ -214,30 +214,65 @@ PACKED MSIL BUILD (MSIL-PACK)
     <delete dir="${build-msil-pack.dir}" includeemptydirs="yes" quiet="yes" failonerror="no"/>
   </target>
 
+<!-- ===========================================================================
+DOCUMENTATION
+============================================================================ -->
+
+  <!-- see four.xml for template -->
+  <target name="msil-docs.done"/>
+
+  <target name="msil-docs.clean"/>
+
+<!-- ===========================================================================
+BOOTRAPING TEST AND TEST SUITE
+============================================================================ -->
+
+  <!-- see four.xml for template -->
+  <target name="msil-test.done"/>
+
 
 <!-- ===========================================================================
 DISTRIBUTION
 ============================================================================ -->
 
-  <target name="msil-dist.start" depends="msil-pack.done"/>
+  <target name="msil-dist.start" depends="msil-pack.done">
+    <property name="msil-dist.dir" value="${dists.dir}/scala-msil-${version.number}"/>
+  </target>
 
   <target name="msil-dist.lib" depends="msil-dist.start">
-    <!-- ${dist.dir} is set by the main build script -->
-    <copy toDir="${dist.dir}/lib">
+    <mkdir dir="${msil-dist.dir}/lib"/>
+    <copy toDir="${msil-dist.dir}/lib">
       <fileset dir="${build-msil-pack.dir}/lib"
                includes="*.dll"/>
+      <fileset dir="${build-msil-pack.dir}/lib"
+               includes="scala-compiler.jar,scala-library.jar"/>
     </copy>
   </target>
 
   <target name="msil-dist.bin" depends="msil-dist.lib">
-    <copy toDir="${dist.dir}/bin">
+    <mkdir dir="${msil-dist.dir}/bin"/>
+    <copy toDir="${msil-dist.dir}/bin">
       <fileset dir="${build-msil-pack.dir}/bin"
                includes="scala*-net*"/>
     </copy>
-    <chmod perm="ugo+rx" dir="${dist.dir}/bin"
+    <chmod perm="ugo+rx" dir="${msil-dist.dir}/bin"
            includes="scala*-net*" excludes="*.bat"/>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="msil-dist.done" depends="msil-dist.bin"/>
+  <target name="msil-dist.latest" depends="msil-dist.bin" unless="os.win">
+    <symlink link="${dists.dir}/latest-msil" resource="${msil-dist.dir}" overwrite="yes"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="msil-dist.done" depends="msil-dist.latest"/>
+
+<!-- ===========================================================================
+TEST AND DISTRIBUTION BUNDLE (ALL)
+============================================================================ -->
+
+  <target name="msil-all.done" depends="msil-dist.done, msil-test.done"/>
+
+  <target name="msil-all.clean" depends="msil-docs.clean, msil.clean"/>
 
 </project>
+
+
diff --git a/src/build/pack.xml b/src/build/pack.xml
index 7fb51f674..4cf560e97 100644
--- a/src/build/pack.xml
+++ b/src/build/pack.xml
@@ -126,21 +126,7 @@ MAIN DISTRIBUTION SBAZ
     </sbaz>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="pack-sbaz.msil" depends="pack-sbaz.doc">
-   <sbaz
-      file="${dists.dir}/sbaz/scala-msil-${version.number}.sbp"
-      adfile="${dists.dir}/sbaz/scala-msil-${version.number}.advert"
-      name="scala-msil"
-      version="${version.number}"
-      desc="The Scala MSIL package contains everything needed to use Scala on .NET."
-      depends="scala-library,scala-devel"
-      link="${sbaz.universe}/scala-msil-${version.number}.sbp">
-      <binset dir="${dist.dir}/bin" includes="scala*-net*"/>
-      <libset dir="${dist.dir}/lib" includes="*.dll"/>
-    </sbaz>
-  </target>
-  
-  <target name="pack-sbaz.all" depends="pack-sbaz.msil">
+  <target name="pack-sbaz.all" depends="pack-sbaz.doc">
     <sbaz
       file="${dists.dir}/sbaz/scala-${version.number}.sbp"
       adfile="${dists.dir}/sbaz/scala-${version.number}.advert"
@@ -181,6 +167,59 @@ JAVA FOUR DISTRIBUTION PACKAGING
   
   <target name="fourpack-archives.done" depends="fourpack-archives.zip"/>
 
+<!-- ===========================================================================
+MSIL DISTRIBUTION PACKAGING
+============================================================================ -->
+
+  <!-- MSIL Archive -->
+
+  <target name="msilpack-archives.start">
+    <mkdir dir="${dists.dir}/archives"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="msilpack-archives.tar" depends="msilpack-archives.start">
+    <tar destfile="${dists.dir}/archives/scala-msil-${version.number}.tgz" compression="gzip">
+      <tarfileset dir="${dists.dir}/scala-msil-${version.number}" prefix="scala-msil-${version.number}"
+        includes="bin/**" mode="755"/>
+      <!-- Inlcude only dll's. Using scala-msil depends on having a scala distribution -->
+      <tarfileset dir="${dists.dir}/scala-msil-${version.number}" prefix="scala-msil-${version.number}"
+        includes="lib/*.dll"/>
+    </tar>
+    <checksum file="${dists.dir}/archives/scala-msil-${version.number}.tgz" fileext=".md5"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="msilpack-archives.zip" depends="msilpack-archives.tar">
+    <zip destfile="${dists.dir}/archives/scala-msil-${version.number}.zip">
+      <zipfileset dir="${dists.dir}/scala-msil-${version.number}" prefix="scala-msil-${version.number}"
+        includes="bin/**,lib/*.dll"/>
+    </zip>
+    <checksum file="${dists.dir}/archives/scala-msil-${version.number}.zip" fileext=".md5"/>
+  </target>
+  
+  <target name="msilpack-archives.done" depends="msilpack-archives.zip"/>
+
+  <!-- MSIL Sbaz package -->
+
+  <target name="msilpack-sbaz.start">
+    <mkdir dir="${dists.dir}/sbaz"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="msilpack-sbaz.msil" depends="msilpack-sbaz.start">
+   <sbaz
+      file="${dists.dir}/sbaz/scala-msil-${version.number}.sbp"
+      adfile="${dists.dir}/sbaz/scala-msil-${version.number}.advert"
+      name="scala-msil"
+      version="${version.number}"
+      desc="The Scala MSIL package contains everything needed to use Scala on .NET."
+      depends="scala-library,scala-devel"
+      link="${sbaz.universe}/scala-msil-${version.number}.sbp">
+      <binset dir="${dists.dir}/scala-msil-${version.number}/bin" includes="scala*-net*"/>
+      <libset dir="${dists.dir}/scala-msil-${version.number}/lib" includes="*.dll"/>
+    </sbaz>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="msilpack-sbaz.done" depends="msilpack-sbaz.msil"/>
+
 <!-- ===========================================================================
 MISCELLANEOUS
 ============================================================================ -->
@@ -189,6 +228,8 @@ MISCELLANEOUS
   
   <target name="fourpack-all.done" depends="fourpack-archives.done"/>
 
+  <target name="msilpack-all.done" depends="msilpack-archives.done, msilpack-sbaz.done"/>
+
 <!-- ===========================================================================
 MISCELLANEOUS
 ============================================================================ -->