Actually avoid the Eclipse download site altogether and get the Spring Tool Suite IDE directly from here: http://www.springsource.org/downloads/sts-ggts. Everything I needed worked smoothly and out of the box: importing Maven projects and running the applications using AspectJ/Spring. It also comes with the critically needed plugins e.g. EGit, m2e, AJDT and everything works perfectly.
I needed this for a new GUI project on top of Spring/Valkyrie RCP.