newbie session problem, PHP 4.0.6

[vasah20]

Hello -
I'm having a real problem with sessions... I can't seem to get them working.

Here's my code:
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
session_start();
if (!isset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS[&quot;count&quot;])) {
print &quot;registering session...&quot;;
$count = 1;
session_register(&quot;count&quot;
} else {
print &quot;session registered!&quot;;
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS[&quot;count&quot;]++;
print $HTTP_SESSION_VARS[&quot;count&quot;];
}
?>

each time I hit refresh it prints out &quot;registering session...&quot;, and no errors show up on screen.

here's what my php.ini looks like (the session stuff):
[Session]
session.save_handler = files
session.save_path = /tmp
session.use_cookies = 1
session.name = PHPSESSID
session.auto_start = 0
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
session.cookie_path = /
session.cookie_domain =
session.serialize_handler = php
session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
session.referer_check =
session.entropy_length = 0
session.entropy_file =
;session.entropy_length = 16
;session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom
session.cache_limiter = nocache
session.cache_expire = 180
session.use_trans_sid = 1
url_rewriter.tags = &quot;a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry&quot;

and ls -l /tmp looks like
drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 1024 Dec 10 16:12 tmp/

Any suggestions???

TIA leo

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Leo Mendoza
lmendoza@students.depaul.edu