ASP.net MVC application logging out very quickly after logging in - asp.net-mvc-2

Question

This is probably a very simple problem but I cant see the solution and its really beginning to bug me!
I have a simple ASP.Net MVC2 application which is intended as a learning aid which requires users to log in by providing username and password. These are authenticated against a DB using a membership provider was created and configured using the aspnet_regsql tool.
The web config looks like this (which I think is right... maybe not sure about the forms authentication bit however):
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms loginUrl="~/Account/LogOn" timeout="2380"/>
</authentication>
<membership>
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" requiresUniqueEmail="false" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="6" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" passwordAttemptWindow="10" applicationName="/" />
</providers>
</membership>
<profile>
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/" />
</providers>
</profile>
<roleManager enabled="false">
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/" />
<add name="AspNetWindowsTokenRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.WindowsTokenRoleProvider" applicationName="/" />
</providers>
</roleManager>
The code in the view which performs the log procedure looks like this:
public ActionResult LogOn()
{
return View();
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult LogOn(LogOnModel model, string returnUrl)
{
if (ModelState.IsValid){
if (MembershipService.ValidateUser(model.UserName, model.Password)){
FormsService.SignIn(model.UserName, model.RememberMe);
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(returnUrl)){
return Redirect(returnUrl);
}
else{
return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
}
}
else{
ModelState.AddModelError("", "The user name or password provided is incorrect.");
}
}
// If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
return View(model);
}
And each method in the controller which requires security applied is tagged like so:
[Authorize]
public ActionResult New() {
return View();
}
[Authorize]
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult New(FormCollection collection) {
//do something...
}
I have also tagged the controller class with [Authorize] also.
However, when I log in to the site by creating a new item or editing an existing item I get logged out very quickly after logging in.
Do private methods in the controller also need to marked with [Authorize] and would this cause someone to get logged out?
Thanks for your help,
Morris