CI v1.5.4 Session question

hi Salain, thank you for the offer, unfortunately I do not have access to modify or add to this layer of my stack. I have tried to place a session.php from CI 2.X (the oldest i could find on the GIT repo) in a dev branch that i do have write access as a last attempt at bypassing the current one to no avail. I was hoping that if i instantiated the new one and called getInstance() it would hook me in to the userdata from the original class but give me access to the data. I feel like this should work but i've not had any luck. I am still churning down this path today, however after that I will be kicking the story back to the backlog as it has increased in scope by a fair amount due to my restrictions.

Thanks again to all! By far one of the most helpful community's i have had the pleasure of joining.