Overriding Auth

Hi all,
I am currently developing in Cake 1.3 and I've been attempting to
override the AuthComponent as described in:

http://www.milestree.com/php/custom-login-function-with-cakephp
http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2009/09/08/extending-cakephps-core-components/

I started out with a working implementation of Auth + Acl and now I
need to add a third criteria to the our login/security model.

My code snippets look as such:

/** app_controller.php **/
class AppController extends Controller {

public $components = array(
'Acl',
// 'Auth',
'CoreAuth',
'Session',
'Cookie',);

public function beforeFilter() {
parent::beforeFilter();

$this->_setupAuthComponent();

// do some more pre-Auth stuff here

if(!$this->CoreAuth->user()) {
//do NOT Authed stuff here
} else {
// do Authed stuff here
}
}

private function _setupAuthComponent() {
// do all my Auth variable initialization here...replace $this-
>Auth with $this->CoreAuth
}
}

/** users_controller.php **/
class UsersController extends AppController {
public $name = 'Users';
public $components = array('Password', 'Email');

public login(){
// do post Auth stuff here
}

public logout() {
// do logout stuff here
}
}

/** core_auth.php **/
App::import('Component', 'Auth');

class CoreAuthComponent extends AuthComponent {
public $name = 'CoreAuth';

/**
* Custom user identification
*/
public function identify($user=null, $conditions=null) {
// do my custom login / authentication stuff

// send the user to Auth now
parent::indentify($user, false);
}
}

I have gone through my scripts and replaced "$this->Auth" with "$this-
>CoreAuth" .... I'm not getting through a login now... if i try to
debug $this->CoreAuth at any point during the login process, "Auth"
doesnt appear to be instantiated at all... inheritance hasn't occurred
after extending it in CoreAuthComponent.....

Some guidance would be appreciated.

Max

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