OK @olblue, that can only mean one thing that your web-server is not returning cookies at all.
This happens when certain hosts aggressively cache files across several machines (load-balancing) and this makes them skip the cookies.
Such web-hosts usually give you a choice of deciding which URLs to skip from being so aggressively cached (e.g. admin panels of CMS).
Please contact your host explaining the situation and asking them to keep Couch's admin-panel URL from being cached in this manner.
Hope it helps.
This happens when certain hosts aggressively cache files across several machines (load-balancing) and this makes them skip the cookies.
Such web-hosts usually give you a choice of deciding which URLs to skip from being so aggressively cached (e.g. admin panels of CMS).
Please contact your host explaining the situation and asking them to keep Couch's admin-panel URL from being cached in this manner.
Hope it helps.