My fone r dum, and it was getting unwieldy to have to scroll down a mile to change the skin back when the internet cafe at work was down--now that it's back up I don't log in with my phone all that often and I never (or darned seldom) log out at home so I can't be arsed to change it.
As for the cookie thing, this is happening on a work computer that does not keep cookies at all so that can't be the explanation--heck, on my home computer, which does understand and keep cookies I never have this issue even if I have to log out and clear cookies for the occasional lightspeed file not found error. I suspect it has to do with my customized forum search set, since
Jag's getting a similar error, that would make sense since this wasn't happening back before we could customize it. Since I like my custom search I will resign myself to having to log in twice when I'm at work. The burdens of life threaten to overcome me, sigh.