Thank you all; Consuelo as well as Mav have a handle on the phenom

But forgive me for my unGeeklike ignorance of the ways of Bill Gates. The cause of the problem (Father, this might be how you got tripped up) is inadvertently hitting "Logout":

Once you have done this the site won't let you back in until you first go to the "login" page, duly log in, then check the "Remember me on each visit" box. Thereafter you will always be logged in until you again hit "Logout"

One side benefit to this thread is that I have finally learned my password. However, I'm still not sure whether my name is dale hileman, dalehileman, of Dale Hileman

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