Wow; what a happining site you all have here. My garden sites don't move along like this. Thanks for the good information. I will find a new email to link with as suggested. Part of the reason I didn't already try that, was because I was concerned that someone might have been using my account somehow. Of course, I haven't seen any indication of damage other than the above problem of google saying i have and then dont have an account. I also was asked an unusual login question via utube when I attempted to start an account. That was what got me started on trying to reactivate in the first place. Since then my memory has kicked in a bit and suggested I might have used that unusual question after all. That probably means all is well. Maybe the utube attempt is actually the hang up. I may even try to get back to the utube startup and see if I can answer the unusual question to get me in from that side. I suppose putting my logins and passwords in a book is a plausable idea, and it certainly would have prevented this thread. HOWEVER: to ravencajun and your accurate detection of my upset with google; may I at least claim 'contributary neglegence'. Loogin appears to be a major problem and it is absurd to require 'login' to get on the google help forum that is the only form of google help; and secondly re a book of logins; that seems to be a great way to get on a ton of threads of police, attorney's, banks and God knows what for ten years trying to recover your life savings, credit and whatever following a break in or a questionable friend. I suppose a compromise is in order. I think I might try putting such a list in a real book in the book case and not the computer desk. Unfortunately that reminds me of a day several decades ago (when I actually had a functioning memory) when my young son opened up a random book and a pile of twentys or hundreds fell out from whence they had been placed for secure keeping several years before and been completely forgotten!

Gardenweb occasionally has trouble with logins, and is aware that this occurs. I have had it occur sporadically over the last couple of years. At one point, about 2 years ago, I might have to log in half a dozen times before it would take. The only thing that seemed to help was to login only from the GardenWeb home page rather than while I was in a specific forum. I have not had login problems for a while now, but I know others occasionally do. I don't think there is much you can do, other than to try logging in from the home page.

This was posted in a thread today at the Winter Sowing Forum, "Hi folks, Just wanted to stop by and assure you that we are working on these issues. Last week, we launched a new registration tool and there are still some bugs that are being ironed out. I know that it's frustrating and upsetting when things don't work as they should -- I really do feel your pain. Unfortunately, some of these bugs are difficult to recreate because they vary from member to member. What would be enormously helpful would be for you to contact us directly and detail what your issues are. Including information such as a step-by-step overview of your login process, where you are seeing issues, the error messages you are getting and anything else that might have differed from any previous login experiences. Many of you have probably already done this, but please make sure you check your browser settings and make sure that you have cookies enabled. If you would send this information to our contact link below, that would be extremely helpful. If you have specific questions or need something else, you are welcome to email us at the link below or contact me directly at any time -- my email is listed on my profile page. Thank you for your continued patience and support. Best regards, Tamara Amey GardenWeb Community Manager So...guess folks just need to report the log in issues individually if one isn't staying logged in. I'm not seeing any ads here at The KT, and never have seen any on GW until this past week. Now I am seeing them on those forums that are on the 'forums2' servor....ie Seed Exchange, Winter Sowing, etc. Firefox and Adblock has always kept me ad-free so sometime later I'm going to remove both and reinstall them. Sue

Ha! I got in just now for the first time in days! I had contacted GW and apparently I was one of the residual problems they mention. Last night when I tried to get in though the home page, I was still getting a message saying Content-type: text/plain. I'm delighted to be back in contact once again. Rosefolly