Well, well.
Considering all the g-d hours I spent trying to get ME to work yesterday the solution was amazingly simple.
For "future generations of WOFF'ers" in the same Java/W10 boat download:
http://projects.killerapplets.com/JAR_Runner/

Small program, took about 10 seconds to figure out and about 3 seconds to use.
And it works. ME is firing up!