Thanks. I searched on the terms in your response and ended up going with this solution (not the same, but it worked to get ant installed):
http://gauravstomar.blogspot.com/2011/09/installing-or-upgrading-ant-in-mac-osx.html
So, now ant works, but I’m seeing other issues. Sigh, sadly I’ve used Windows for so exclusively for the last two years that my ‘Linux/Unix/OS X’ kung fu is very weak.
Regardless, thanks again for the quick response!