diff --git a/pmd/etc/build.xml b/pmd/etc/build.xml
index 44e53b5985..f0ba90e31d 100644
--- a/pmd/etc/build.xml
+++ b/pmd/etc/build.xml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 
 <target name="pmd">
     <taskdef name="pmd" classname="net.sourceforge.pmd.ant.PMDTask"/>
-    <pmd rulesetfiles="rulesets/favorites.xml" verbose="true">
+    <pmd rulesetfiles="rulesets/favorites.xml">
         <formatter type="net.sourceforge.pmd.renderers.HTMLRenderer" toFile="foo.html"/>
         <fileset dir="/usr/local/java/src/java/lang/ref">
             <include name="**/*.java"/>
diff --git a/pmd/etc/changelog.txt b/pmd/etc/changelog.txt
index 6a1268db49..26f1c3666e 100644
--- a/pmd/etc/changelog.txt
+++ b/pmd/etc/changelog.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ????? - 1.06:
-Removed "verbose" attribute from CPD Ant task; now it uses built in logging so you can do a "ant -verbose cpd".  Thanks to Philippe T'Seyen for the code.
+Removed "verbose" attribute from PMD and CPD Ant tasks; now they use built in logging so you can do a "ant -verbose cpd" or "ant -verbose pmd".  Thanks to Philippe T'Seyen for the code.
 TODO - fix it so tests and rules don't duplicate the xpath expressions
 
 April 17 - 1.05:
diff --git a/pmd/regress/test/net/sourceforge/pmd/ant/PMDTaskTest.java b/pmd/regress/test/net/sourceforge/pmd/ant/PMDTaskTest.java
index d56ef5c674..df1beb2080 100644
--- a/pmd/regress/test/net/sourceforge/pmd/ant/PMDTaskTest.java
+++ b/pmd/regress/test/net/sourceforge/pmd/ant/PMDTaskTest.java
@@ -39,16 +39,4 @@ public class PMDTaskTest extends TestCase {
         }
     }
 
-    public void testBogusRuleSet() {
-        PMDTask task = new PMDTask();
-        task.setPrintToConsole(true);
-        task.setRuleSetFiles("fiddlesticks");
-        try {
-            task.execute();
-            throw new RuntimeException("Should have thrown a BuildException - bogus rulesets");
-        } catch (BuildException be) {
-            // cool
-        }
-    }
-
 }
diff --git a/pmd/src/net/sourceforge/pmd/ant/PMDTask.java b/pmd/src/net/sourceforge/pmd/ant/PMDTask.java
index e8445b2051..155d61de4a 100644
--- a/pmd/src/net/sourceforge/pmd/ant/PMDTask.java
+++ b/pmd/src/net/sourceforge/pmd/ant/PMDTask.java
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Reference;
@@ -33,7 +34,6 @@ public class PMDTask extends Task {
     private List formatters = new ArrayList();
     private List filesets = new ArrayList();
     private boolean shortFilenames;
-    private boolean verbose;
     private boolean printToConsole;
     private String ruleSetFiles;
     private boolean failOnError;
@@ -56,10 +56,6 @@ public class PMDTask extends Task {
         this.failOnRuleViolation = fail;
     }
 
-    public void setVerbose(boolean verbose) {
-        this.verbose = verbose;
-    }
-
     public void setPrintToConsole(boolean printToConsole) {
         this.printToConsole = printToConsole;
     }
@@ -91,21 +87,17 @@ public class PMDTask extends Task {
         try {
             RuleSetFactory ruleSetFactory = new RuleSetFactory();
             if (classpath == null) {
-                printIfVerbose("Using the normal ClassLoader");
+                log("Using the normal ClassLoader", Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
                 rules = ruleSetFactory.createRuleSet(ruleSetFiles);
             } else {
-                printIfVerbose("Using the AntClassLoader");
+                log("Using the AntClassLoader", Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
                 rules = ruleSetFactory.createRuleSet(ruleSetFiles, new AntClassLoader(project, classpath));
             }
-        } catch (RuleSetNotFoundException rsnfe) {
-            throw new BuildException(rsnfe.getMessage());
+        } catch (RuleSetNotFoundException e) {
+            throw new BuildException(e.getMessage());
         }
 
-        printIfVerbose("Using these rulesets: " + ruleSetFiles);
-        for (Iterator i = rules.getRules().iterator();i.hasNext();) {
-            Rule rule = (Rule)i.next();
-            printIfVerbose("Using rule " + rule.getName());
-        }
+        logRulesUsed(rules);
 
         PMD pmd = new PMD();
         RuleContext ctx = new RuleContext();
@@ -116,7 +108,7 @@ public class PMDTask extends Task {
             String[] srcFiles = ds.getIncludedFiles();
             for (int j = 0; j < srcFiles.length; j++) {
                 File file = new File(ds.getBasedir() + System.getProperty("file.separator") + srcFiles[j]);
-                printIfVerbose("Processing file " + file.getAbsoluteFile().toString());
+                log("Processing file " + file.getAbsoluteFile().toString(), Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
                 ctx.setSourceCodeFilename(shortFilenames ? srcFiles[j] : file.getAbsolutePath());
                 try {
                     pmd.processFile(new FileInputStream(file), rules, ctx);
@@ -125,9 +117,7 @@ public class PMDTask extends Task {
                         throw new BuildException(fnfe);
                     }
                 } catch (PMDException pmde) {
-                    if (verbose) {
-                        pmde.printStackTrace();
-                    }
+                    log(pmde.toString(), Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
                     if (failOnError) {
                         throw new BuildException(pmde);
                     }
@@ -136,7 +126,7 @@ public class PMDTask extends Task {
             }
         }
 
-        printIfVerbose("Problems found: " + ctx.getReport().size());
+        log(ctx.getReport().size() + " problems found", Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
 
         if (!ctx.getReport().isEmpty()) {
             for (Iterator i = formatters.iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
@@ -153,7 +143,7 @@ public class PMDTask extends Task {
 
             if (printToConsole) {
                 Renderer r = new TextRenderer();
-                log(r.render(ctx.getReport()));
+                log(r.render(ctx.getReport()), Project.MSG_INFO);
             }
 
             if (failOnRuleViolation) {
@@ -162,6 +152,14 @@ public class PMDTask extends Task {
         }
     }
 
+    private void logRulesUsed(RuleSet rules) {
+        log("Using these rulesets: " + ruleSetFiles, Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
+        for (Iterator i = rules.getRules().iterator();i.hasNext();) {
+            Rule rule = (Rule)i.next();
+            log("Using rule " + rule.getName(), Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
+        }
+    }
+
     private void validate() throws BuildException {
         if (formatters.isEmpty() && !printToConsole) {
             throw new BuildException("No formatter specified; and printToConsole was false");
@@ -179,12 +177,6 @@ public class PMDTask extends Task {
         }
     }
 
-    private void printIfVerbose(String in) {
-        if (verbose) {
-            log(in);
-        }
-    }
-
     private Path createClasspath() {
         if (classpath == null) {
             classpath = new Path(project);