I don't know how your second approach is coded, but I've used links structured like this in sitescooper:
[A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/auth/chk_login?USERID=sitescooper&PASSWORD=sitescooper
&is_continue=true&OQ=&URI=http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/text/index.html"]International
with a username and password incorporated. (BTW, sitescooper/sitescooper is a valid user/pass combo. You can pick up others at bugmenot.com.) This might resolve the cookie issue for you.
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