>> does this have anything to do with the xml save and restore for the settings?
you don't mention stopping and restarting the app, and if you're not doing that then no, it's not related to save / restore.
>> then I go to a form that requieres no login session value or level and test for sessionlevel at the start of it and sessionlevel still set at 50
fixed for the next build.
cheers
Bruce