ASP.NET MVC – Alternative to Role Provider?

I’m trying to avoid the use of the Role Provider and Membership Provider since its way too clumsy in my opinion, and therefore I’m trying to making my own “version” which is less clumsy and more manageable/flexible. Now is my question.. is there an alternative to the Role Provider which is decent? (I know that I can do custom Role provier, membership provider etc.)

Asp.net forms authentication cookie not honoring timeout with IIS7

Authentication cookies seem to timeout after a short period of time (a day or so). I am using Forms Authentication and have the timeout=”10080″ with slidingExpiration=”false” in the web.config. With that setting, the cookie should expire roughly 7 days after the user is successfully authenticated.