Sessions and variables dum question

Hi, maybe I'm doing something wrong but I can't figure out what. I have a little script that is supposed to handle two variables from a session, so when a user logs in: Session start() $user = "user" $pass = "pass"... redirects to another page. Now on the index page it reads Session start() Global $user, $password; If (empty($user)) Die("You need to be registered to see this page") Else ... This works fine... the first time you use it, if someone tries to log in, from outside, it gives them an error message, the problem is that if I log in correctly, and lets say go to another restricted page, while I use the exact same header, it always takes $user as empty in the second page, and then if I try to go back to the first page, now $user is also empty... I thought once you registered a variable in a session, it was supposed to be available through the global instruction for the whole section, but in this case it seems to disappear after the first page... funny, cause I don't pass the variable the first time through a post, or get, but rather by registering the variable before going to index. Any ideas, of what I'm doing wrong? __________________________________________________________________ Elliot Balanza ICQ#: 146854957 Current ICQ status: More ways to contact me  See more about me: __________________________________________________________________