so the login cookies are saved and work everywhere else on the site except for the forums (the only place you'd actually need them)

i've done all the cookie purging and relogging and still can't get it to work

this only happens on my work machine and it only started screwing up like 3-4 weeks ago. any ideas?

(8 hours of queue monitoring is so painful when i can't argue with people online!)

problem resolved. had to open up Internet Explorer (boooo hisss hisssssss) and clear browsing history using that since doing so in chrome and firefox wouldn't clean out the problem