Have you tried other browers? Are you using IE6?

IE6 with the default security setting (or anything above Low Secuity) will reject cookies from site without a P3P policy and P3P CPP headers.

If you do not have a P3P policy (an unapproved standard deemed necessary by our malevolent dictator in Redmond) for your site you should (or your users will experience the problem I stated above). You can readup on P3P at W3C. W3C also provides a P3P Validator

As a side note - do not store usernames and passwords in a cookie, this is a security hole (that has been experienced at some well-know sites :) ). You might want to setup a sessionid for that user and reference (and expire) that id

Ovid's excellent CGI programming course addresses cookies and security concerns

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