Team,

I was able to fix this thing. I was having tunnel vision. Thanks for a great product.

Luke, pmularien and canal -- thank you for your suggestions...all were very helpful.

I needed to insert a line in the casProcessingFilter section.
from:
Code:
	<beans:bean id="casProcessingFilter"
		class="org.springframework.security.cas.web.CasAuthenticationFilter">
		<beans:property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager" />
	</beans:bean>
to:
Code:
	<beans:bean id="casProcessingFilter"
		class="org.springframework.security.cas.web.CasAuthenticationFilter">
		<beans:property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager" />
		<beans:property name="sessionAuthenticationStrategy" ref="sas" />
	</beans:bean>
If there is a simpler/different way to do this, I would love to see it.

Thanks again