Possible? IE cookies grafted into the machine identity used in ASP.NET HTTP ops

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I regularly scrape content from sites that require cookie information for
auth. When I am on a dev machine using VS.NET and test my scraping tools,
the returned content indicates that the webpage login is me.

Question #1: When I deploy my tools to a server, what user does the system
"impersonate" for the purposes of browsing?
Question #2: Could I log into the user account described in Q1, use IE for
awhile, persist cookies via "Remember Me," and scrape normally?
Question #3: Is it possible to copy all of the cookie files and whatnot from
a workstation that's chock-full-of-auth-cookies to a place on the server and
have that user impersonated on scrapes? What needs to be copied and where in
the directory structure should I place it?
Question #4: Am I correct that if I were to build a Windows Forms app that
conducted scraping operations, it would impersonate/ use the cookie setup of
the currently logged-in user?

Thanks in advance.
-KF


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