So I am running one install of Movable Type Pro (at the moment version 4.23-en with the Community Pack 1.61 and Professional Pack 1.21) but I am using this install for several projects (or trying to!).
On a new site I am developing, I had the issue of being forgotten from page to page when logged in - or seemingly forgotten. When I would navigate within the site the sign in area at the top left would tell me "Sign In" (even though I already had) - if I clicked on "Sign In", I did become "Signed In" without actually having to go back to a log in screen.
I posted about this issue here on the MT forums, and with a hint from Rob I was able to see that in fact the cookie was not being set correctly.
Then something funny happened - I clicked on a "tag" of the new site, which performs a search, and I was magically logged in again. Aha - I checked out the search template and saw that in the head of the template there is some javascript:
<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
var user = <$mt:UserSessionState$>;
/* ]]> */
</script>
I added this code to the Header template module right after the open HEAD tag, and now everything seems to be working. I still have some extraneous code issues, but if you were having the same sessions issue as me, this code does seem to work.
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