On the last one, I was thinking if you closed Max, stopped the browser service, started the browser service, ran Max - were you then signed in and everything worked?
Anyway, be sure to have a ticket submitted, this one may have to go over to the Cosmos team or the licensing people in general, so sending in a ticket at the same time as posting here is always best.
It needn't be an avatar up there, but when you click on the little person figure it ought to say who you are signed in as and have the option to sign out :) So yeah if all it says is sign in, something is up.