MalformedURLException on windows when useSystemClassLoader set to true

useSystemClassLoader does not work on windows XP, due to the way that the surefire plugin creates a manifest.mf which includes all necessary jars to run the projects tests.

The manifest.mf file created in surefirebooter[1-9]*.jar contains absolute paths that begin with the drive letter, e.g. c:\somedir\somejar.jar on
on unix this would be /somedir/somejar.jar which java.net.URL can cope with, on windows c:/somedir/somejar.jar needs to be changed to file:///c:\somedir\somejar.jar

steps to recreate are simple:

1. mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app
2. add the following entry in pom.xml for my-app

<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<useSystemClassLoader>true</useSystemClassLoader>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

3. mvn install

which will fail with

[INFO] Building jar: c:\DOCUME~1\username\LOCALS~1\Temp\surefirebooter43635.jar
java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: c
at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:573)
at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:463)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.parseClassPath(URLClassPath.java:923)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getClassPath(URLClassPath.java:896)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getLoader(URLClassPath.java:351)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getResource(URLClassPath.java:205)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$ClassFinder.run(URLClassLoader.java:846)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged1(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:389)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:371)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:570)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:442)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:502)
The java class is not found: org/apache/maven/surefire/booter/SurefireBooter