Gradle adds external libraries from wrong directory - intellij-idea

I am using the fileTree Gradle task to import some external libraries
compile fileTree(dir: 'C:\\Intellij\\cast\\grails-app\\libs', include: '*.jar')
The issue is that when I build my Gradle project it actually pulls JAR files from a different directory C:\\Intellij\\cis\\grails-app\\libs
If I put that same exact fileTree task in any other project it will properly pull JAR files from the CAST directory but in the actual CASTproject it pulls from CIS. I have done a complete text search of the entire CASTproject and there are no references to the CISproject so I have no idea why its doing this. If I modify the contents of the CISlib folder then those changes are reflected when I refresh my CASTproject.
What do I need to do to make sure that when I specify that I want to pull libraries from the CAST directory that it actually does instead of pulling from somewhere else?

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I've created an issue for this limitation, please star/vote.