hang on, i was in a parallel session to check out the message...so why did this posting come through? I didnt enter a user/pw at all??? did it pick the relevant data from the parallel session (which message did not come through...)

strange.
maybe something easy to old session data would be more reliable.....not accepting *ix session when it runs itself on a unix machine:

Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a mod_perl/1.26 PHP/4.0.6 mod_throttle/3.1.2

Cheers
Axe