In the end I used
Maven 2 to solve the project dependencies and this has gottem me further along with the
test example although I still have issues connecting to MySQL 5.1 at the moment.
For anyone else who comes across this problem here is the pom.xml file I used. The artifacts are all from my local drive and are from the latest versions of hibernate and MySql at the time of writing..
Hope this may help someone else from spending a week trying to rectify this problem when trying to do the first book example.