Eclipse compiles classes to a different folder than what Grails does, making importing existing projects difficiult

I followed the guide at http://brainflush.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/grails-and-eclipse-not-so-groovy/ which created a symlink from a ~/.grails/.../classes/ folder to the workspace because Eclipse compiles to different places, and looks for compiled files in different places. It seems this can be avoided by simply having Eclipse and Grails compile to the same location, and check for classes in the same pre-compiled location.

I really wish I could submit a patch to help out with this, but I don't even know where to start. Hopefully bringing that blog post to your attention will help though.