rajani, I don't know whether the cookie problem you are having is related however, since the new forum has been in place - my computer's "history" folder saves the forum address as http://gossamer-threads.com/perl/forum [<< notice no trailing slash]

When I access the forum using that url, I access as being not logged in - I need to add the trailing slash and then the cookie properly recognizes the userid stored in the cookie.

Perhaps your problem is something similar?