Working with multirefs, Axis, and SOAP::Lite

A posting (which is not archived in the group for some reason) in the SOAP::Lite message board raised yet again the shortcomings of SOAP::Lite and how it parses and interprets WSDL. It also brought to light a horrible SOAP Fault returned by Axis which led the poster and I in a completely mistaken direction when trying to solve the problem...