Well, I've experienced this problem (but strangely, just for that last couple of weeks). It isn't very often and I've not noticed a pattern yet, but just to help out here is my computer info.
The problem occurs on both my home and work computer.
My browser on both is IE 6.0 with whatever the latest service pack is.
At work I use XP Professional and at home I use 2000 Professional.
Also, while you all are working on problems, I keep getting script errors on some of the threads. I think the message is that a ")" is missing or something.
Yesterday I deleted all my cookies and logged in. Later in the day I was automatically logged in just fine. This morning however, I was not logged in automatically. I am using win98 with IE 6, I believe. I had no problems until 2 days ago.
clearly there is a bug somewhere. So ace hackers, do you think it could it be related to user profiles? We have a good mix of people's profiles to compare.
Wow Jack! Thanks for the basic and visual explanation. I can relate to ticket stubs and gum wrappers. You almost make that geeky stuff sound interesting.