Just a brief note that I have updated the umthesis.cls
Revision 14 has the following improvements

1. More documentation in class file
2. Two different abstract environments
3. Nicer copyright page
4. An already compiled example file (pdf) which demonstrates all the features in the class, plus all the files necessary to compile it

You can download the umthesis zip file, browse the umthesis directory, or view the subversion repository