cheers derby, the firebug link was the push in the right direction that I needed!
The header was being set fine, the 'problem' was because I handn't specified an 'expires' parameter, and my lack of understanding over how cookies are managed without it (IE wasn't bothering to write it to disk, which is where I was looking for it).
My problem didn't really exist! Sorry guys.
cheers for your help everyone.
PS: If anyone is interested, I got it working with the following snippet. (which is probably not how it will stay, but is a good simple example.)
my $session = new CGI::Session(undef, undef, {Directory=>'c:/temp/
+sessions'});
my $count = $session->param('count');
$session->param('count', $count + 1);
my $cookie = $query->cookie( -name => $session->name,
-value => $session->id
);
$r->content_type('text/html');
$r->err_headers_out->add('Set-Cookie' => "$cookie; expires=Tue Jan
+ 01 00:00:01 2036 GMT");
$session->flush();
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my name's not Keith, and I'm not reasonable.
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