Just FYI - if you're ever writing a cookie name... don't put periods in the name, i.e. "my_cookie.1" is a no-no, but "my_cookie_1" is OK. I found this because I was writing cookies with a dynamic name with the period in it, and PHP would write the cookie just fine, but $_COOKIE["my_cookie.1"] is always an empty string. Changing the period to the underscore fixed it. Grr. -dc