Case matters with SFMT

While a big portion of SFDC is not case sensitive, its standalone Ant-based tool IS, every bit of it.  Whenever I stumpled on that, the failure messages weren't that obvious on the reason.  For instance, if I got the object name's case wrong, it would complain about field names on the object not in package.xml.  Yeah, big help here!  I know, I know,  XML is case sensitive... but it's still inconvenient.