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Note Submitter: klenwell at gmail dot com ---- In response to marou at marou dot com responding to fondman at hotmail dot com regarding local variables overwriting SESSION variables: I was encountering this same problem. On my local PHP 5 server, no problem. Remote host's server running PHP 4: major headaches. Initially, I concluded it was some kind of bug in PHP 4 and older. However, according to the devs, this is not a bug (see http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36366). Apparently, this is intended behavior when register_globals is set to ON. But, as noted elsewhere in the docs, register_globals cannot be turned off at runtime using ini_set(). However, you can use a local .htaccess or php.ini to override the setting. This site helped me solve the problem: http://www.nyphp.org/phundamentals/ini.php Full details of my experience with this issue can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/o6p7y