Getting the value of an auto-increment

Hello, I'm using an auto-increment field in a table as the primary key. What I want to know is when I use an INSERT query to add a row to the table is there a way I can get the value of the auto-increment field of the row that was just inserted? What I'm currently doing is messy but works: I get the current time and session id and write them to one of the fields in the row and INSERT that. I then do a query and find the row (thus getting the value of the auto-increment field) and then write the real data. I'm just hoping there's an easier way. Thanks in advance, Tim Coombes Komrades Ink.