Why do my generated Javadocs look terrible?

Question

I'm trying to generate the Javadoc HTML files for my project. I'm generating them via the Maven Javadoc plugin (maven-javadoc-plugin). I am using Maven 2.2.1. Everything generates such that all the proper information is there, but the HTML looks just awful. So bad that I don't want to publish it that way. Here is a screenshot:

(NOTE: Yes, I see the 'JavaScript is disabled on your browser' message. Even if I click the IE 8 warning about active content and enable it, it makes no difference)

There are all kinds of unnecessary line breaks, and the basic formatting is just crap. Am I missing something? I was expecting to see generated Javadocs that look similar to what I see in Eclipse if I hover over a class or method and see the popup Javadoc panel.

I've tried adding setting in my POM file, but I really don't know what I'm doing when it comes to configuring the Javadoc generator. Here's what I have at the moment (inside the <reporting> element):

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.9</version>
    <configuration>
        <javadocExecutable>C:\Java\jdk1.7.0_05\bin\javadoc.exe</javadocExecutable>
        <javadocVersion>1.7</javadocVersion>
        <locale>en_US</locale>
        <show>package</show>
        <verbose />
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Any suggestions?

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UPDATE:

The solution provided by Paulius worked perfectly. I removed the section above from my <reporting> section, as it was totally unnecessary. I added the new <plugin> element as he specified below. My POM file now contains this new block:

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.8.1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>attach-javadocs</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>jar</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>           
        ...
    </plugins>
</build>

Here is what the fixed output looks like:

Answer 1

Try to remove maven-javadoc-plugin from reporting section. If you are using Maven 3, the reporting section is deprecated and should be removed.

Try to add the following:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.8.1</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>attach-javadocs</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>jar</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

to your maven plugins section and run it. I am using maven-javadoc-plugin like this and it generates normal javadocs.

Hope this helps.