Windows Azure Powershell Automate Login

Question

Hello,
I am stumped and starting to feel beat by this one.
I'm trying to automate tasks from a website to Windows Azure. Specifically, when a new user signs up, I want to create a Remote-PSSession and run a few commands on the server to set up the new user. I have the remote parts working but I can't seem to log
in without the manual intervention of entering my username and password in the browser, thus, I have to run the commands from PowerShell and not from C#.
Most recently, I was following this tutorial:
http://michaelcollier.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/configuring-connectivity-with-windows-azure-powershell-cmdlets/
This seems like exactly what I need but maybe I'm misunderstanding some of the fundamental concepts.
Here's what I tried most recently:
To attempt to get a fresh start I deleted all of the certificates out of my Current User\Personal\Certificates directory. Which (as far as I can tell) is the same directory referenced in Michael's post above when using:
Get-Item cert:\\CurrentUser\My\$thumbprint
I then ran the following commands, and when prompted downloaded and saved the .publishsettings file to my desktop:
Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile
Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile "C:\Users\<My User>\Desktop\myPubSettings.publishsettings"
At that point I tried the following:
# I started with:
cd cert:\\CurrentUser\My
dir
# to look up the thumbprint, then proceeded to set the variables...
$thumbPrint = "the thumbprint I looked up above."
$subscriptionName = "My Azure Subscription"
# Not actually my subscription:
$subscriptionId = "e234a9-4asb-9asdf-8loremIpsum"
$mgmtCert = Get-Item cert:\\CurrentUser\My\$thumbprint
Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $subscriptionName -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId -Certificate $mgmtCert
# This line failed, saying Default Subscription was not a valid parameter
Set-AzureSubscription -DefaultSubscription $subscriptionName
Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $subscriptionName –CurrentStorageAccount ‘mystorageaccount’
After that, I felt reasonably confident that I was logged in. So I tried to run:
Get-AzureVM
Which returned the error:
"Get-AzureVM : Your credentials have expired. Please use Add-AzureAccount to log in again."
I feel like there are a lot of tips on the internet, but none that I've been able to get working. Is there a known bug, or is it clear based on what I tried above what is wrong? Is it possible to to automate the login to Azure so that I can run scripts from
C# to perform some of my tasks?
Thanks for your help, 
Wes

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