$_USER -- just a thought

I've been having difficulty with $GLOBALS in a fashion similar to that reported in bug #16065 -- I'm using debian-unstable packages of 4.1.2, maybe it'll go away with the 4.2 packages, but I digress .... What I'm trying to do is save state of the user's variables at a given point in time and as far as I can tell that's only in the $GLOBALS array today ... everything else is clean to save, the $_GET|POST|SESSION|COOKIE... stuff, but the user's stuff is a problem. So it got me wondering/thinking that it might be nice to have a $_USER array available that has this stuff ... Any chance it already exists, or might be made available? -- Hank Marquardt <hank@yerpso.net> http://web.yerpso.net GPG Id: 2BB5E60C Fingerprint: D807 61BC FD18 370A AC1D 3EDF 2BF9 8A2D 2BB5 E60C