session looses variable

Hi, This is what is probably a newbie session problem. I've been having some trouble with sessions on php 4.0.6, I'm developing a website in which I don't have direct control over the server. Due to some other problems I created a test counter script to try to narrow down where the problem resides but no I'm sort of stuck. Here is the small counter script. session_start(); print_r($HTTP_SESSION_VARS); if (!session_is_registered('count2345')) { $GLOBALS['count2345'] = 0; echo "create count<br>"; session_register('count2345'); } else { $count2345++; } echo "<br>"; echo session_id(); session_write_close(); When I refresh it will periodically loose the count2345 session variable and recreate the variable. At times it will also jump in value. Here are also the php configuration session settings. session.auto_start Off Off session.cache_expire 180 180 session.cache_limiter nocache nocache session.cookie_domain no value no value session.cookie_lifetime 0 0 session.cookie_path / / session.cookie_secure Off Off session.entropy_file no value no value session.entropy_length 0 0 session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 1440 session.gc_probability 1 1 session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID session.referer_check no value no value session.save_handler files files session.save_path /tmp /tmp session.serialize_handler php php session.use_cookies On On Here is also the compile configuration which includes --enable-trans-sid  './configure' '--disable-pear' '--enable-ftp' '--with-sybase-ct=/usr/local/freetds' '--enable-trans-sid' '--enable-force-cgi-redirect' Thank you