Trouble returning to page after form submission

[eluser]Tekamba[/eluser]
OK, my previous attampt at a fix, while it works, doesn't make passing the form values BACK to the form very easy. Because I have to pass everything to a separate file which then re-directs to my form page, I lose the POST data stored.

From what I am seeing there are 2 (probably more, but 2 I can think of) ways to handle this:

1) Figure out WHAT is adding the .php to my call BACK to the form page. The link is correct, if it didn't have the .php, I don't have that in code, so has to be something else adding it. I am just not sure what.

2) Pass all the form values (one of the forms on this site is an applcation that will take a LOT of storage, but they don't want to keep all that data so it seems silly to store it in a database, rather we are just sending it along in an email. So is there a simple way to pass ALL active variables into a flashdata array? Or something similar?

Hoping someone has a suggestion, for 2 of the 3 forms manually storing the form data into flashdata values won't be too cumbersome as there are a total of probably 10-15 fields between the forms. The employment application form is another matter, however. And I definitely don't want them to have their users needing to retype all their data.

Greg