Maintain cookie session in Android

Okay, I have an android application that has a form in it, two EditText, a spinner, and a login button. The user selects the service from the spinner, types in their user name and password, and clicks login. The data is sent via POST, a response is returned, it's handled, a new WebView is launched, the html string generated from the response is loaded, and I have the home page of whatever service the user selected.

That's all well and good. Now, when the user clicks on a link, the login info can't be found, and the page asks the user to login again. My login session is being dropped somewhere, and I'm not certain how to pass the info from the class that controls the main part of my app to the class that just launches the webview activity.

The onClick handler from the form login button:

private class FormOnClickListener implements View.OnClickListener {

    public void onClick(View v) {

        String actionURL, user, pwd, user_field, pwd_field;

        actionURL = "thePageURL";
        user_field = "username"; //this changes based on selections in a spinner
        pwd_field = "password"; //this changes based on selections in a spinner
        user = "theUserLogin";
        pwd = "theUserPassword";

        List<NameValuePair> myList = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
        myList.add(new BasicNameValuePair(user_field, user)); 
        myList.add(new BasicNameValuePair(pwd_field, pwd));

        HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
        DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(params);
        HttpPost post = new HttpPost(actionURL);
        HttpResponse response = null;
        BasicResponseHandler myHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
        String endResult = null;

        try { post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(myList)); } 
        catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } 

        try { response = client.execute(post); } 
        catch (ClientProtocolException