Sorry about the delay in replying, been busy.

As I assume the case is for a lot of people using xoops, I don't (anymore) have a local server, I use a web hosting site, and I often work on the site while one the road - hence need for a personal firewall. :)

Evan

Hmm, disabling the firewall is not what I call a good solution!!! (you should see my firewall log) Any idea why the firewall would still cause a problem if the site is listed as an allowed (protected) site?

I have set up a number of my websites on my host server with xoops. Each site has a copy of the php files, and share a single database with different database table prefixes (as defined on installation).
I have been able to enter each of these sites and work in the administrator section at least once, and in most cases several times.
Today I started to experience problems where I could log into the sites with the administrator id, but when I pressed the Administrator Menu, I got the error "You don't have the right to access this area".
I traced this back to admin.php, and by creating a second variable of _AD_NORIGHT2, I was able to determine that it is because $xoopsuser was false. I have no php experience, so I am having trouble tracing back the source of the error.
I do have zonealarm installed, but I made sure that these sites have full permission for cookies and headers. And the problem seems to go away sometimes.
Any help is appreciated.

Evan Smith