sessions don't seem to be working

[eluser]bretticus[/eluser]
[quote author="ggoforth" date="1254054931"]Don't quote me on this, but I knew of someone else that was having trouble with this. He said it was because of the way CI handles sessions, it stores all the data in a string in a cookie on the client side. There was something wrong with the way IE 7 and 8 were handling this string, and as such we could not use CI sessions. We went with a third party CI database class that ended up working VERY well. Again, I am not an expert, but this is a common problem that I've heard.[/quote]

You might try setting up database sessions (very easy to configure) or encrypting your cookie data (also a config.php one liner.)

Be aware, cookies can only hold up to 4k (not that you are anywhere close.)

Or, if that doesn't work, you could try and use real PHP sessions (I guess that is what Session Hybrid does.)

Good Luck!