And yet it worked perfectly for the FQDN access method even though
the cookie domain would have been set incorrectly since none was
specified.

Sounds like it's working appropriately for UseCanonicalName off (ie.
pass hostname from request)

I don't *have* to use different names, but it's a lot easier to type
 "//box/mythweb" when I'm sitting at home.

Why don't people like using bookmarks? One bookmark with a short keyword like "myth" will solve that issue.

The reason I originally turned off UseCanonicalName was because (1)
it forces a redirect to the FQDN and therefore requires
authenticating twice,

huh?  read what the term does.  All it does is tell the server to send
the servername info to the client as is stated in the config file,
rather than the one the browser sends in the virtual host request.

and (2) it means everything going to the server has to pass through
the router twice.

again, huh?

That's nice, in a way, in that I lose all internal access to the web
 server if the external gateway is broken or the DNS record has
expired (so I know it's broken).  Faking the FQDN in /etc/hosts makes
testing the machine via the gateway impossible.

That's why you turn off the entry in /etc/hosts when you're testing.

-Chris
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