Sessions with register_globals = Off

Hi all, I am trying to implement sessions to authenticate users to my site. I have register_globals = Off; to force developers on the machine to use $HTTP_GET_VARS and $HTTP_POST_VARS But once I do a session register, I can't seem to access the variables later. I have looked in the sess file in /tmp and the session doesn't seem to be stored. I have tried the following : session_start(); session_register("user_level"); session_register("user_email_address"); session_register("user_first_name"); session_register("user_last_name"); session_register("user_name"); session_register("auth"); return("YES"); Then in the function that called this, I do printf("User_level = %s<br>", $user_level); printf("User_name = %s<br>", $user_name); I also tried printf("User_level = %s<br>", $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["user_level"]); printf("User_name = %s<br>", $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["user_name"]); neither of these found anything... Is there any way to do this without turning global_vars on ? Thanks, -- - A Complete Luser E-mail: acompleteluser@penguinpowered.org.uk