Owen,
I can understand your pain. May I suggest that you research on the net for spring-MVC sample examples. Take the basic spring tutorial as a base and build your application.
What are the errors you are getting? Can you copy paste them here? Also copy paste your installation details. You can get them from MyEclipse > Installation Summary > Installation Detail.
Usually, you will find classNotFound errors when references are not correct or relevant classes are missing.