OID and Oracle Forms in 9iAS Release 2

Whenever I bring up a first form in 9iAS forms over the web scenario, I am forced to log into the database through a pop up login box in IE. This is so even though I have a perfectly valid "userid=user/pwd@database" value in the URL. I have tried moving the userid value to the formsweb.cfg group and it helps not a whit. Once I log on everything works hunkydory. I am figuring there is some issue with OID. Is this a valid assumption?
How, exactly, does the OID and forms over the web interact. Do I need to create an OID user that has resource access to the database and then use that id in the userid variable in the URL? If so, how do I do this. Please feel free to be specific as if you were talking to an idiot or a small child...type very slowly and enunciate as you go. Not being able to log in from the formsweb.cfg and the URL is an irritant, not a showstopper, but it is a big irritant.

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