Login Authentication 404 Error on New App Engine Connected Android Deployment (C2DM)

[JLM]

I have a new Out of the Box Deployment of an App Engine Connected Android Project.  

I have deployed the project successfully

http://appauthtest.appspot.com/

I am following the instructions on this page

https://developers.google.com/eclipse/docs/appeng_android_run_debug

The problem comes when I try to trigger a security authentication

1. 
   Force sign in to GAE app by going to your_production_url/tasks/. This triggers the security constraint in web.xml to get logged in to GAE. (After logging in, you’ll get an error page, but you can ignore that.)
2. Go to your_production_url and Say Hello to App Engine. If logged in, you should see a success message.

When I open http://appauthtest.appspot.com/tasks/

I get a 404 Not Found error without it ever having triggered the login screen.

The same happens for http://appauthtest.appspot.com/Auth.html which is the Welcome Page directly.

Please Help!  What is happening.  I only signed up for C2DM today and it said it would take a day to kick in.  It doesnt make sense for that to be the blocker though in this authentication dimension.

Thanks

Joseph