Updating Forms Values

Hi group, Wonder if anyone has a quick solution to this problem I am having. I have an authentication system using cookies. The system lets a user login and then they are shown a list of clients which are allocated to there username. They can then add press releases or edit them from the links. Now if they add a new release there are no problems and the system works fine. The only problem I am having is when they edit an existing release it works fine they are taken to the updated page, and from there the links which contain there name as a value attached to it do not hold the full username. For example: home.php?name=Barry Zimmerman This once you have eddited a page becomes: home.php?name=Barry So basically it is stripping the surname or anything after the space character. Is there a way to stop this from happening. Hope someone can help. Many thanks Barry Zimmerman