hOodville!

because our server is behind a firewall, i had to make some changes in drupal's settings.php file http://drupal.org/node/6554

otherwise, users connections broke after they visited the first page.

NOTE: this problem has been fixed with drupal 4.7. 

** * Base URL: * * The URL of your website's main page. It is not allowed to have * a trailing slash; Drupal will add it for you. *

$base_url = 'http://www.hoodville.org'; commented out the above line

this has the advantage that whatever domain the users used to get to the site, they will maintain throughout the session. this is to allow users coming in through our firewall to maintain their sessions. otherwise the connection breaks after they reach the first page.