[kh99]

I understand your concern, but I'm not sure what else to tell you. I think you either need to change the cookie path, or else your custom script needs to be under the /Forum directory. The issue has to do with when the user's browser decides to send the cookies, so you can't fix that by doing a chdir() in your script (because by the time your script is running, the cookies have either been sent with the request, or they weren't).

There is a file that comes with the vb distribution, in the "do not upload" folder, called tools.php. It allows you to fix certain things without neding to log in, by uploading that file to your admincp directory and then pointing your browser to admincp/tools.php (don't do it until you need it, because some other things won't work when the tools.php file is present). Anyway, one of the things it lets you do is reset the cookie path, so if you run in to a problem you should be able to fix it that way.