Your problem is the syntax in the forms element. The attribute is "forms" not "name". The reason you were seeing "aspxauth" was that is the default name used if no form name is given. Since nothing was entered for the "forms" attribute it used "aspxauth". Use the following instead:

<authentication mode="Forms">
    <forms forms=".PHYSCNT" loginUrl="../wlogin/login.aspx" />
</authentication>

>Sorry for rambling :) is FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName supposed to be the name of the cookie that is specified in the protected applications web.config? No matter what, it gives me .ASPXAUTH. Am I doing something wrong here? Thanks,
>jfh
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>>I think I got this figured out. Apparently, if I want to use a different cookie name, I have to assign it a different name in my login page. This is a real bummer, because I'm going to have to use a different login page for every application, following these rules. Does anyone know how to make this dynamic? Thanks,
>>jfh