If you have installed WinXP SR2, it contains a popup blocker, and also resets some security settings so that cookies that were previously accepted may be blocked. If that's the problem, you can adjust settings to get the level of blocking you need. In IE, look in "Tools" - "Internet Options" on the "Privacy" tab. If needed, the "Advanced" button there lets you override the automatic settings for cookies. Other browsers should have similar adjustments.

When you log in somewhere, they pretty much have to put a cookie on your machine, so that when you go to the next page the site can look for the cookie to tell whether you're "legal."

It is also possible that you already have a cookie from the site and it's gotten fouled up some way. (Crumbled cookie syndrome.) The solution there is to just delete the existing one and go get a fresh one. Most browsers allow you to "clean out" web content, including temp files and cookies. In IE, its in "Tools" - "Internet Options" on the "General" tab. Deleting cookies there deletes ALL cookies. You can also use Windows Explorer and manually delete just the ones you want. Most Windows versions put cookies in C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Cookies, where "Username" is whatever name you operate under.

Re the Toolbar location:

Just click on a blank place on the bar, hold the mouse key down and drag, and you can put it at any edge you want. So far as I know, you can't "float" it in the middle of the screen. Since it can't be out in the middle, sometimes it moves better if you go from top to one side, then from side to bottom, rather than just dragging straight from top to bottom.

If the Toolbar doesn't move for you, right click any blank space on the Toolbar, and make sure there isn't a check by "Lock Toolbar." If it's checked, just click it to turn the checkmark off to unlock, then drag.

John