unable to create session cookie

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
Since the OP had a problem with native sessions, yours is a different issue.

We don't know what's wrong, we can't look into your environment and code? Have you debugged it? What did you test? What was the result?

For starters, disable the session cookie encryption in the config, so you can read the cookie. Is the cookie created in Safari? If so, what it it's contents, and does it match the session in the db? If not, is your session config ok (domain, path, cookie name)?