[sfear]

Last night I logged in to post my selection on the Five Best Songs thread and since no one had posted since my previous post to ferretchucker I decided to edit it so I wouldn't have two superimposed posts. I've edited posts before and all I ever did was click the save button and it worked just fine. Last night when I "saved" I got a window saying I didn't have the right to do what I just did and that I needed to refresh the page and log in again which to me was crazy since I was already loggen in -- it said so at the top of the page. So I did as instructed and lost an hours worth of work. I thought because I was flipping back and forth with my dictionary (the spell-checker on my toolbar doesn't work) I some how logged out even though the top of the page still said I was logged in. So I rewrote the whole thing without checking my dictionary, clicked the save button and the same stupid thing happened again. Growing madder by the nanosecond I noticed the edit button was still on the screen so I clicked that, was instructed to log in again (which I find infuriating because I WAS ALREADY LOGGED IN) and once I did, wha-la it worked.

To make a short story as long as possible, why was I continually told to refresh the page (thereby losing all my work) and log in again when I was already logged in? Can someone explain this to me so I can understand it? I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.