[drupal-support] system messages showing on all pages

[Abalieno]

My host screwed something and now my site doesn't run anymore with php 4 but 
it seems to work with php 5.

As I can use it only as CGI I cannot pass parameters through the .htaccess 
and the sessions vanish after half an hour. I guess I have no hope to solve 
this problem? It's not fun when you work on an article for an hour, post it 
and discover the session vanished and you lost everything.

The other problem is that I see the system messages ( like "The block 
settings have been updated.") sticking on EVERY page. They also group up and 
just don't vanish till the session isn't ended.

Is this a problem with PHP 5 or it's again about the settings not being 
applied correctly?

-HRose / Abalieno