LOL... It's hard to tell in this case, since it works in Firefox but not Safari...
I tried an IE6 installation and so long as I did not click on the 'Sign out' link, I was able to 'auto sign in'. In other words, I started IE 6, navigated to the user community forum and logged in. Then I closed the browser window (without signing out). I restarted IE6 and navigated back to the user community forum. This time I was already signed in. Note that I didn't wait long to do this - I'm not sure if the community forum software has a session time out...
There is a difference in behavior from Firefox and IE6 in the following regard. With Firefox, if I sign out, the next time I come to the community forum it remembers my user id and password. With IE6 it does not remember either - regardless of "cookie" settings...
Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the 'mystery' around the community forum software...
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