aren't cookies global?

Thanks Dave. It is working a little better now. What I mean is it works intermittently. I have been trying to figure out why that is. There seems to be a delay in writing (or reading) the cookie. I wish there was a way i could force the system to write the cookie rather than it just happening on its own schedule. I will debug it a little more. Today my xdebug again started crashing Apache. That happened last week for a few days, and then it just went away by itself, and it started by itself again today, so I cold booted and am hoping for the best.

proof that an old dog can learn new tricks