I am new to this concept after having written my own authentication code in
the past.  I'm now trying to get my brain around forms authentication in .net
2.0.  So far I'm finding it extreemly restrictive and difficult to implement.

I've gone through a VWD2005 walkthrough of creating a super simple forms
authenticated app.  All of a sudden (I'm not sure what I did, I was messing
around with stuff as an experement) it stopped authenticating.  I went back
into the ASP.NET config tool and deleted and re-added a test user, but it
won't authenticate the user (returns "attempt was not successful. Please try
again").

So, I start looking into the code and.... there isn't any!  How does one
start troubleshooting when there isn't anything to troubleshoot?

I've looked through TONS of posts, but, none of them seem to explain how you
could even begin figuring out what is wrong.  Can anyone help point me in the
right direction?

Thanks
Bernie