Thanks everyone for the replies. While it is obvious to me I have MORE research to do b/c I don't yet understand all of the pieces, what I also don't understand is the attitude from some of you that I am wasting your time:

I, too, would judge that you have not yet taken the time to avail yourself of the introductory materials to which you, have at several times, thus far been pointed . . . Take care not to waste our time, nor your own!

I am NOT a programmer. I am a Systems Engineer and design networks. If some of you can read the tutorials and understand it the first time around, good for you. But that does not give you the right to assume that I am here just to pass the work off to someone else to figure things out for me. I HAVE read several different tutorials, and the fact that I STILL need help doesn't mean you should assume I haven't tried anything on my own. I have figured out many of my programming issues on my own, and have come to the conclusion that cookies should work better for me after completely reworking my code to support first GET and then POST. For those of you that are willing to help others work through their problems, post a reply. For those of you that want to make a negative comment regarding the fact that I have read a lot on the subject and still don't understand it, keep your replies to yourselves.