Could anyone provide me w/ a sample project that uses Hibernate 3.x under SpringFramework 3.x (preferred SpringMVC as an addition)? Immediate help is highly appreciated!

I think you are in the wrong forum. Look for them under Spring project and read their ref manual.

When you have specific Hibernate problems, then post it back here with the simplest junit code possible without Spring. This is not Spring forum, and likely no one will reply you with it.

Thanks for clarifications.