For the record: I re-installed Axis with the nightly backup from 11/18/2002 and the problem no longer occurs. I believe there was a change made to SOAPPart.java that deleted a "log.debug" call in the SetCurrentForm method, and now I no longer receive the NullPointerException. The original problem noted with the change to SOAPPart.java didn't mention anything about NullPointerExceptions or array input parameters, but I believe it (the log.debug call) to be the source of my problem.
Randall Evans