Logon credentials revert to anon

[Greg Buchanan <gm...@cfl.rr.com>]

All, 
 
I am having two very bizarre problems. 
 
First and foremost, I can authenticate to jetspeed using the admin
account. However, I try to access any of the admin portlets and get,
"You do not have access to these portlets.". If I sign on using admin
and immediately click on the "edit account: admin" link, it takes me to
the sttings for the "anon" user. 
 
Secondly, when the scenario above does not occur, logging in via admin
prosents a page in which the tabs and graphics within the tabs (and
other jetspeed graphics on the page) do not render properly (i.e 404
like errors). I say "404 like" since I can not seem to find any 404
errors in any of the logs. 
 
I appreciate this is not much to go on, so if anyone can point me to a
problem determination process or which logs to look at -- I would
greatly appreciate the help. 
 
Thanks.