I've just submitted changes to special_userlog(in|out).php which should fix the infamous cookie path problem (login cookie sets path of /wiki/ and thus you aren't logged in when you look at / or /wiki.phtml -- yecch!)
People will have to re-login to make it take effect once installed...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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