Java Project with Web Service Reference Fails Outside Netbeans

[Peazy]

Hello, I'm having a problem running a Java project from outside Netbeans. It seems I'm not the only one:

Unable to run Java application outside of IDE
Application works fine on netbeans but not after exporting to jar
Project will not run from command line

Now I understand and very much appreciate that Netbeans is free, but the 'help' provided in these threads is...lacking. "Be sure you have done a Clean & Build"...??? If there is a simple fix, I would love to hear it, as this is blocking me at work here from deploying an application on time. The reason I came to NetBeans to begin with was the wonderful ability to simply right click->new->Web Service Client (as I can easily do in VisualStudio 2010), but this is rather frustrating--what use is it to me if I can only run everything from within Netbeans. I've posted some details below.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Details:
*Netbeans 7.0.1 (Build 201107282000)
*Java 1.6.0_26; Java HotSpot 64-Bit Server VM 20.1-b02
*Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (although the application failed from Win7 and Win2008 as well)
*I have one Web Service referenced (a.k.a a single WSDL url)
*Running from NetBeans is just fine--however, after following the instructions for deployment (copy whole 'dist'+'dist/lib' folder, run 'java -jar MY_JAR.jar') it fails on Linux and Windows
*The failure is from a null reference--the null reference is the port returned from the service (i.e. myService.getServicePort() returns a null object)--is this something dealing with METRO? METRO is added to my project as both a compile time & runtime jar, and all *.jars are in the lib folder

Basically I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions beyond 'clean + build' or 'check the encoding for OutputStreamWriter()'...