The first issue is the practice of physically unpacking plugin jar files in the $MAVEN_HOME/plugins directly. This requires the directory to be writable by the least privileged user who will run maven - in practice this directory will almost always be world-writable, perhaps with the sticky bit set.
Already fixed in CVS for b10 - the whole maven installation can now be read only and the plugins are expanded to ~/.maven/plugins
The second issue is more subtle. When packages are downloaded, they are put into the global $MAVEN_HOME/repository.
Define maven.repo.local in ~/build.properties and it will store it wherever you choose. In b10, the default is ~/.maven/repository
I've found current CVS to be at least as stable as b9 if not more so, and its easy to build with the bootstrap, so I'd recommend giving it a go.
Don't panic ;)
Cheers, Brett
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