I duplicated a skin on the site and chose it as the active skin, then tore out some of it's "guts" and simply wanted one content block. It was working until I changed the content, now when I try to login as host, it comes back with Login Failed. Please remember that passwords are case sensitive.

Is it possible that I ripped something out that was necessary for it to function? The AJAX call seems to be fine.

Update: I added the login/register links back, and when I clicked on the login link to bring up the form in a modal, logging in from there worked. Weird.

Update 2: I looked at the two AJAX calls, the one from the modal window included

dnn$ctr$Login$Login_DNN$txtUsername=sdhost
&
dnn$ctr$Login$Login_DNN$txtPassword=<password>
 

whereas the form from Login.aspx did not.

PS If you're a StackOverflow member, I have a bounty for my question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25730551/dnn-new-skin-causes-login-to-fail?noredirect=1#comment40227971_25730551