i'm really hoping that some is still looking at this node, and has any other suggestions - i'm at my wits end!!

i've tried:

• added "-domain=>'.domain.com'" to the cookie settings, since somewhere i saw that made a difference
• done the refresh as a meta header, rather than using the redirect function, with up to 5 sec before the refresh is sent
• made sure that the PC i'm on is running the correct time at the time that i set the cookie (works right with Moz, as stated)

i haven't yet tried Evan Carroll's excellent suggestions, mostly because i don't run on Linux, and i'm not sure how to do this with windows (and i can't run it on Mac, since MS won't support IE on the Mac anymore!!) i will try the Data::Dumper suggestion, although i'm a little dubious about how that'll help.....