diff --git a/build/build.xml b/build/build.xml
index 6f225ca7b..a99469b34 100644
--- a/build/build.xml
+++ b/build/build.xml
@@ -28,18 +28,19 @@
 	<property name="theme.dir" value="${ui.dir}/themes/base/" />
 	<property name="docs.dir" value="${ui.dir}/docs/" />
 
-	<property name="min.folder" value="${dist.dir}/ui/minified" />
+	<property name="min.dir" value="${dist.dir}/ui/minified" />
 
 	<property name="concatenated" value="jquery-ui" />
 	<property name="concatenated.i18n" value="jquery-ui-i18n" />
 
 	<property name="core.files" value="jquery.ui.core.js, jquery.ui.widget.js, jquery.ui.mouse.js, jquery.ui.draggable.js, jquery.ui.droppable.js, jquery.ui.resizable.js, jquery.ui.selectable.js, jquery.ui.sortable.js, jquery.effects.core.js" />
+	<property name="core.files.min" value="jquery.ui.core.min.js, jquery.ui.widget.min.js, jquery.ui.mouse.min.js, jquery.ui.draggable.min.js, jquery.ui.droppable.min.js, jquery.ui.resizable.min.js, jquery.ui.selectable.min.js, jquery.ui.sortable.min.js, jquery.effects.core.min.js" />
 
 	<property description="Google Closure" name="closure-jar" value="${build.dir}/google-compiler-20091218.jar" />
 	
-	<target name="deploy-release" depends="docs-download, concatenate, minify, copy, replace-version, prepend-header, zip" description="Release builder">
+	<target name="deploy-release" depends="clean, docs-download, concatenate, minify, copy, replace-version, prepend-header, zip" description="Release builder">
 	</target>
-
+	
 	<target name="replace-version">
 		<replaceregexp match="@VERSION" replace="${release.version}" flags="g" byline="true">
 		    <fileset dir="${dist.dir}/ui/" includes="*.js"/>
@@ -49,7 +50,6 @@
 	</target>
 	
 	<target name="prepend-header">
-		<!-- TODO: refactor this ugly mess -->
 		<copy todir="${dist.dir}/headers/">
 			<fileset dir="${dist.dir}/ui/" includes="*.js" />
 		</copy>
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 		    <fileset dir="${dist.dir}/headers/" includes="*.js"/>
 		</replaceregexp>
 		<for param="file">
-			<path><fileset dir="${dist.dir}/ui/minified/" includes="*.js" /></path>
+			<path><fileset dir="${min.dir}/" includes="*.js" /></path>
 			<sequential>
 				<propertyregex override="yes" property="target" input="@{file}" regexp=".*[\\/](.+)\.min\.js$" replace="\1"/>
 				<concat destfile="${dist.dir}/ui-headered/${target}.min.js">
@@ -66,9 +66,33 @@
 				</concat>
 			</sequential>
 		</for>
-		<copy todir="${dist.dir}/ui/minified">
+		<copy todir="${min.dir}">
 			<fileset dir="${dist.dir}/ui-headered/" includes="*.js" />
 		</copy>
+		
+		<!-- once more for the i18n files -->
+		<!-- need to clean up headers in those files first
+		<copy todir="${dist.dir}/headers/i18n/">
+			<fileset dir="${dist.dir}/ui/i18n/" includes="*.js" />
+		</copy>
+		<replaceregexp match="^(\/\*.*?\*\/\s).+" replace="\1" flags="s">
+		    <fileset dir="${dist.dir}/headers/i18n/" includes="*.js"/>
+		</replaceregexp>
+		<for param="file">
+			<path><fileset dir="${min.dir}/i18n/" includes="*.js" /></path>
+			<sequential>
+				<propertyregex override="yes" property="target" input="@{file}" regexp=".*[\\/](.+)\.min\.js$" replace="\1"/>
+				<concat destfile="${dist.dir}/ui-headered/i18n/${target}.min.js">
+					<header file="${dist.dir}/headers/i18n/${target}.js" />
+					<fileset file="@{file}" />
+				</concat>
+			</sequential>
+		</for>
+		<copy todir="${min.dir}/i18n/">
+			<fileset dir="${dist.dir}/ui-headered/i18n/" includes="*.js" />
+		</copy>
+		-->
+
 		<delete dir="${dist.dir}/headers/" />
 		<delete dir="${dist.dir}/ui-headered/" />
 	</target>
@@ -108,10 +132,10 @@
 
 	<target name="minify" depends="concatenate" description="Remove all comments and whitespace, no compression, great in combination with GZip">
 		<echo message="Building minified" />
-		<delete dir="${min.folder}/" />
-		<mkdir dir="${min.folder}" />
-		<delete dir="${min.folder}/i18n/" />
-		<mkdir dir="${min.folder}/i18n/" />
+		<delete dir="${min.dir}/" />
+		<mkdir dir="${min.dir}" />
+		<delete dir="${min.dir}/i18n/" />
+		<mkdir dir="${min.dir}/i18n/" />
 		
 		<apply executable="java" parallel="false">
 			<fileset dir="${src.dir}/" includes="jquery.ui.*.js, jquery.effects.*.js" />
@@ -122,11 +146,16 @@
 			<arg value="--js_output_file" />
 			<targetfile />
 			<arg value="--js" />
-			<mapper type="glob" from="*.js" to="${min.folder}/*.min.js" />
+			<mapper type="glob" from="*.js" to="${min.dir}/*.min.js" />
 		</apply>
+
+		<concat destfile="${min.dir}/${concatenated}.min.js">
+			<filelist dir="${min.dir}" files="${core.files.min}" />
+			<fileset dir="${min.dir}" includes="jquery.ui.*.js, jquery.effects.*.js" excludes="${core.files.min}" />
+		</concat>
 		
-		<apply executable="java" parallel="false" verbose="true" dest="${dist.dir}">
-			<filelist dir="${dist.dir}/ui/" files="${concatenated}.js" />
+		<apply executable="java" parallel="false">
+			<fileset dir="${src.dir}/i18n/" includes="jquery.ui.*.js" />
 			<arg line="-jar" />
 			<arg path="${closure-jar}" />
 			<arg value="--warning_level" />
@@ -134,19 +163,13 @@
 			<arg value="--js_output_file" />
 			<targetfile />
 			<arg value="--js" />
-			<mapper type="glob" from="${concatenated}.js" to="tmpmin" />
+			<mapper type="glob" from="*.js" to="${min.dir}/i18n/*.min.js" />
 		</apply>
-		<concat destfile="${min.folder}/jquery-ui.min.js">
-			<filelist files="${src.dir}/jquery.ui.core.js, ${dist.dir}/tmpmin"/>
-			<filterchain>
-				<headfilter lines="9"/>
-			</filterchain>
+
+		<concat destfile="${min.dir}/i18n/${concatenated.i18n}.min.js">
+			<fileset dir="${min.dir}/i18n" includes="jquery.ui.*.js" />
 		</concat>
-		<concat destfile="${min.folder}/jquery-ui.min.js" append="yes">
-			<filelist files="${dist.dir}/tmpmin"/>
-		</concat>
-		<delete file="${dist.dir}/tmpmin"/>
-		
+				
 		<echo message="Minified ui/ built." />
 	</target>