Thanks all. With your suggestions in mind I checked out some of the privacy options I had setup in IE.

Under tools>InternetOptions -> Privacy tab I have it set to "High" which blocks certain cookies: 1) Those that do not have a compact Privacy Policy 2) Those that use personnally identifiable information w/o your consent (so they say :-)

Anyhow, I simply added Perl Monks to the Web Sites override handling list, telling it to always allow cookies from perlmonks.org.

Now, as far as I recall I have not changed this in a long time. Then one day I could not stay logged in. Does this possibly indicate that Perl Monks changed something on how it stores/handles cookies? Just curious.

Many thanks, all is well again :-)