I just spent about 5 hours trying everything i could think of to get sessions to work....ends up it was a simple problem that I should have realized before i even started. So, learn my oversight, save yourself 5 hours of going nuts. I have several scripts that all pass vars between themselves....ONE of those scripts is on www.domain.com all the rest are on subdomain.domain.com well, all the scripts that are forms have the form action set as action=http://www.domain.com/script.php nevertheless, I couldn't grasp what was wrong...the problem is that the session information is trying to be passed among more than one domain (www and subdomain)...coookies don't like this and weren't releasing the info to the subdomain that was created in the www domain. So, heads up to anyone else...keep all your scripts in the same domain when using sessions/cookies. By moving hte one script to the subdomain as well, all the problems went away and PHP is once again my favorite we language :) jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]