[eluser]tomodian[/eluser]
First of all, this post is not CodeIgniter problem, but I had problem with IE session in local XAMPP + CI 1.5.4 environment, and some people seems to be in same occasion, so I decided to post how I solved my problem.
My problem was, when using header('Location:') or redirect(), IE looses session variables, but Firefox and Opera works fine.
It was IE specification that if you include underscore '_' in your domain, IE cookie goes bad, and session also goes bad.
I was using 'localhost_whatever' domain, and when I change this into 'localhost-whatever', everything has gone well.
whatever.local_host.com or what_ever.localhost.com
is also bad.
you shouldn't use underscore in your domain.