I will be posting this as an issue. This is incomprehensible to me that nobody seems to have a straight answer to this log out problem. C'est la vie. 

/ liza

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From: napier <napier@potatoland.org>
Date: November 23 2005 12:40:46 EST
To: Liza Sabater <blogdiva@culturekitchen.com>
Subject: CivicSpace timeout issue

This are the threads I looked at on drupal.org:
http://drupal.org/node/2974
http://drupal.org/node/20002
http://drupal.org/node/17303

I made this change in the sites/default/settings.php:

        ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 72000);

I think we need a developer to tell us what's going on with this.  Maybe there are PHP or Apache settings we need to adjust as well.

mark