Forms authentication failed for the request. Reason: The ticket supplied was invalid.

If you get the error

Forms authentication failed for the request. Reason: The ticket supplied was invalid

You need sure that the <machinekey> is the same for all of the machines in the cluster

There is more information about this problem in the following article http://msmvps.com/blogs/omar/archive/2006/08/20/108307.aspx

Thanks to Omar AL Zabir for this info