Apologies, point taken podz, would have started to iritate me as well, just being lazy!
To re-iterate, my problem stemed from blocking cookies outright resulting in the variables in the path name in place of the proper directory path slashes the last anon post sounds like it may be the same thing but I’m sure the developers would know better whether that resulting type of error could be caused by more than one event?
the large post on the subject supprised and confused me as there seemed to no common denomenator to the problem and was being talked about as a mystery bug; rather a serious one if it is and having realised that in my instance the solution was actualy staring me in the face but I chose to look for more obtuse reasons the more frustrated I became. I wondered if in some cases the problem was being overlooked in the same way, although I’m sure the majority of users wouldn’t miss something so obvious ( my level of layered security is such that I forget where actions are taking place- dam my paranoia and the cretins that force me to it)
Hugo.