[development] authentication hooks - PLEASE HELP

[John VanDyk]

Sheryl, I was in the same situation as you not long ago. So I traced 
the flow of execution through and documented it as I went. A Drupal 
greybeard helped me clean it up some, and here's the result:

http://drupal.org/node/10858

This was for cvs shortly before the 4.5 release. Perhaps you can do 
the same for the current release. Now that I have a grey beard of my 
own, I'd be happy to comment on your writeup.