Flashdata and refresh

[eluser]mighty_falcon[/eluser]
Ok, so i did a number of tests with the profiler enabled and it still seems that the only way to have the flashdata is by doing a redirect of somekind...

The cart page is where I set the flashdata and it showed up fine in the session table in the DB. Once I click the login link to take me to the login page the redirect variable disappears. If I do a refresh to the login page, instead of a link, the redirect variable is there.

To eliminate any other errors coming from other parts of the code, i removed all other code from the login function and the redirect variable still disappeared.

I guess I will just have have an intermediate step which sets the flashdata and redirects to the login page.