Hi fellow monks!
I managed to get it to work!!
For everyone else who might be interested in doing something similar, you can check out the WIN32-IEAutomation-0.5. It allows you to call on Windows IE directly and work with the text boxes and buttons directly, hence, bypassing the proxies or authentications (assuming you're already logged onto the NT domain from the beginning).
Hope this may benefit someone else.
- sunslinger