diff --git a/prebuild.xml b/prebuild.xml
index f13b1e28ff..a798a3f693 100644
--- a/prebuild.xml
+++ b/prebuild.xml
@@ -1167,6 +1167,7 @@
       </Configuration>
 
       <ReferencePath>../../../bin/</ReferencePath>
+      <ReferencePath>../../../bin/ScriptEngines/</ReferencePath> 
       <Reference name="System" localCopy="false"/>
       <Reference name="System.Data" localCopy="false"/>
       <Reference name="System.Runtime.Remoting" localCopy="false"/>
@@ -1177,7 +1178,13 @@
       <Reference name="OpenSim.Framework.Servers"/>
       <Reference name="OpenSim.Framework.Data"/>
       <Reference name="OpenSim.Region.Environment"/>
+
+      <!-- Explicit path since without it, the generated .build file does not correctly reference
+           the DotNetEngine assembly in bin/ScriptEngines (instead looking in simply bin/)
+           despite the bin/ScriptEngines reference path.  Hardcoding is not a permanent solution and
+           may cause some warnings in Visual Studio -->
       <Reference name="../../../bin/ScriptEngines/OpenSim.Region.ScriptEngine.DotNetEngine"/>
+
       <Reference name="OpenSim.Region.ScriptEngine.Common"/>
       <Reference name="libsecondlife.dll"/>
       <Reference name="Axiom.MathLib.dll" localCopy="false"/>
@@ -1214,7 +1221,13 @@
       <Reference name="OpenSim.Region.ScriptEngine.Common"/>
       <Reference name="OpenSim.Region.Terrain.BasicTerrain"/>
       <Reference name="OpenSim.Grid.ScriptServer"/>
+
+      <!-- Explicit path since without it, the generated .build file does not correctly reference
+           the DotNetEngine assembly in bin/ScriptEngines (instead looking in simply bin/)
+           despite the bin/ScriptEngines reference path.  Hardcoding is not a permanent solution and
+           may cause some warnings in Visual Studio -->
       <Reference name="../../../../bin/ScriptEngines/OpenSim.Region.ScriptEngine.DotNetEngine"/>
+
       <Reference name="Axiom.MathLib.dll" localCopy="false"/>
       <Reference name="Nini.dll" />
       <Files>