Powershell website login not working - powershell

Question

I am trying to write a basic powershell script to log into gmail but have some up against a problem. The code is below. I have commented out some bits to narrow things down.
$url = "http://gmail.com"
$username="myusername"
$password= "123456"
$ie = New-Object -com InternetExplorer.Application
$ie.visible = $true;
$ie.navigate($url);
while ($ie.Busy)
{
Start-Sleep -m 10000;
}
$counter = 0
while (($counter -lt 10) -and ($ie.document -eq $null)) {Start-Sleep 1; $counter++}
$ie.document -eq $null
$ie.Document.getElementByID('email').value=$username
#$ie.Document.getElementByID("Password").value=$password
#$ie.Document.getElementById("signin").Click();
When I run the powershell script, I get the following error.
You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At J:\scripts\gmail.ps1:21 char:1
+ $ie.Document.getElementByID('email').value=$username
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull
The strange thing is, this was working perfectly fine yesterday and today its not working at all. I am using IE9.
Any help much appreciated.

Answer 1

PowerShell IE9 ComObject has all null properties after navigating to webpage gave me the answer to this. Had to run my script as an administrator due to IE protected mode that was stopping the object from being created. Either turn off IE protected mode or run the script as an administrator to get it working.

Answer 2

I think you made a mistake here:
$ie.Document.getElementByID("Password").value=$password
The ID should be passwd, not password. So replace that line by:
$ie.Document.getElementByID("Passwd").value=$password
Works for me.