Frank/John

The answer to all this is "No, you can't use Session or Application Variables if you installed the IE Security Patch MS01-055. Obviously, you did not install that patch.

Anyway, I found the answer on the MS Knowledge Base. What you need to do is path the URL (from .dbMenuData and .dbMenuParams) using the IP address of the server, not it's server name. If you or anyone else is interested in the why's of the this, visit the MS Knowledge Base and read what it says...

It's taken us 3+ days to figure this out, which in development time is very expensive and painful. And, this question begs to be answered, "hasn't anyone else run into this problem?"