I should have probably added this many months ago when I first found out

about the $_SESSION/$HTTP_SESSION_VAR not being available until a session
was explicitly started.  99% of the time, this shouldn't be needed, but
this function checks for an active session, and starts one if there isn't
an active one.  This should fix the following references for the $_ vars.

Tested, and doesn't seem to break anything

functions/global.php

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ if(isset($session_name) && $session_name) {
  */
 ini_set('magic_quotes_runtime','0');
 
+sqsession_is_active();
+
 /* convert old-style superglobals to current method
  * this is executed if you are running PHP 4.0.x.
  * it is run via a require_once directive in validate.php