Artifact output directory keeps changing

Hey all!

I always deploy my application to <tomcat base>/webapps directory. But, for some reason after a clean and clean install my project the output direcotyr will change.

For example, when I first pulled my project dfown from cvs the default output path for my exploded war artifact was this: C:\Users\me\IdeaProjects\onlineAdoption\src\OnlineAdoptionsWeb\target\OnlineAdoptionsWeb.

I prefer to have to deployed to C:\servers\apache\apache-tomcat-7.0.32\webapps\OnlineAdoptionsWeb. But, for some reason when I change the path it never "sticks" and I always have to go in a change it back.

Any idea what I am missing? Thanks!