It sounds as if your logging on problem might be something to do with cookies. Have you deleted them recently or have you got a cookie blocker set too high?

I've had something similar happen to me but I just kept logging on until I finally stayed recognised. Sometimes LJ is just weird!

It's definitely something to do with my PC, though I haven't altered any cookie settings and I clear the cache regularly. I can get back into CDS with no problems from the PC, but not LJ. I'll just have to stay with the laptop for LJ use from now on.

Bother. That means I'll have to transfer all the fic files over

Have you somehow turned off cookies?

Haven't touched them. But now you mention it, I'd quite like some with my tea.

Have we got a new Pope yet?

Apparently.

And what you doin' larking about with another LJ anyway?

No larkin' involved. I was trying to check the email post settings for my pal jennylyle who's already in France in a very flooded marina. She swears she used the correct email address but her entry hasn't shown up. Mind you, she's very much the techn-Bimbo. She wrote to me recently telling me she'd found a way of reading my LJ entries having disconnected from the net. She's been reading for almost 2 years now and the silly woman has been staying on line, on a very expensive contract with bigpond, every time.