Claims based authentication for extended application - sharepoint

I have sharepoint 2010 application that has default zone and an extended internet zone. The application uses classic mode authentication. I want to convert the application to use claims based authentication. I followed this article http://bit.ly/9StUpd and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg251985.aspx to create a sample application and it works fine.
I have configured default zone to use windows auth and the extended zone to use Forms based authentication. I have only modified the web.config of extended application to use the connection string and membership provider settings as mentioned in the article.
Now my question is do I need to configure web.config of Default zone to use the asp.net membership provider settings.
I'm not able to search asp.net membership provider users in the people picker. The reason is I want to assign a user in asp.net sql membership provider database as site collection administrator so that they have access to all the site menu items.

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I have created an authetication provider and went to central administration >> Authentication Providers and changed the authentication settings to Forms and filled in Membership provider and Role manager details.
Now, when i go to create a site collection under the above mentioned web application, the people picker in the create site collection page still refers to the active directory(central admin has windows authentication).
Can any one explain this behaviour?
I actually expected the People picker in the Create site collection page to refer to the Forms database rather than active directory.
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In the web.config for your web app, you need to change the value in the <PeoplePickerWildcards> node. Change the key to your membership provider.
You need to add your the configuration information for the membership provider to the web.config file for Central Administration. This will allow Central Admin to find from both AD and your own membership. There are examples on Technet for a SQL Server and an LDAP membership provider. Note how it mentions that the membership provider info needs to be added to both the web app's web.config and to Central Admin's. If you're using a Role Manager though, don't put that info in the Central Admin web.config, or at least not unless you really know what you're doing and why. :)
Once you do this the people picker should be able to find people from your FBA solution's membership provider. One little caveat if you happen to be using the same AD store (or some kind of replica) for both Windows auth and LDAP auth. You'll need to use the "prefix" of your membership provider name when specifying the user, otherwise the people picker will always lookup the native AD version of that user. For example, looking up "jdoe" will always find "domain\jdoe" first. If you want jdoe from an LDAP provider pointing at that AD, you'll have to explicitly put in "ldap:jdoe" (substituting whatever you called your membership provider in the web.config for "ldap"

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