So I was playing with the defaultProperties configuration as mentioned on several sites, including this article by Dan Vega that got me going down the path. I wasn’t able to get it working at first, until I did a little messing around. Turns out that this:

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      <entry key="devFilepath">
               <value>${baseFilepath}\logs</value>
      </entry>

Won’t work. The ColdSpring engine won’t find this as a configuration to populate. Instead, you have to make sure the whole space between the tags is what you want to have replaced, like so:

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      <entry key="devFilepath">
               <value>${devFilepath}</value>
      </entry>

Hope that helps someone out!