Sessions: auto appending session id to URLs

I have developed shopping carts and session related Web sites for my employer where we have control over the php environment. On our servers, we do not enable the 'trans-sid' option. I'm now trying to set up a session related site for a friend of mine on a Web host of her choosing. On this host, php was compiled with "enable-trans-sid." It means that on the first page of the site one visits, you get a horrid looking variable name screaming at you in all caps appended to every URL. I'm used to giving my session a much more friendly looking name and then manually appending that to each url. Right now that means that urls on the first page have this very lovely format: http://mydomain.com/new.php?sid=496312b318b435c21e1e13016f7e8262&PHPSESSID=4 96312b318b435c21e1e13016f7e8262 The session info is there twice. Once you reload the page or go to another page, the auto appended stuff (&PHPSESSID=496312b318b435c21e1e13016f7e8262) goes away. Is there a way to stop this from happening when trans-sid has been enabled via the compile? Thanks for any help, beth ___________________________________________________________ miri@miriland.com miri@stigma.com http://miriland.com/ http://www.stigma.com