The spinning circle issue is most likely related to the HZN cookie not getting passed to the Identity Manager from the Access Point.  I discovered that the default setting for cookiesToBeCached to be set to *.  This blocks the HZN cookie from getting passed and why if the powershell script is used for deployment the login process works without issue due to the setting "cookiesToBeCached": "none".  I will have to do more testing but I believe that this is the problem that everyone is having.

Nick