Can you do anything in the Admin without being taken back to the login screen?

If so, where are you when you get tossed back to the login screen?

If you are in one place where this happens ...

Do you *always* get tossed back to the login page? Or just sometimes?

If you have this happen from several places, where do it happen most often?
Yes - for the most part, things work well. I can repeatedly reproduce the jump to login when I hit one of the search / submit buttons on one of the superOrders pages (example, fill in the criteria and hit search). I was on the fence on whether to post in the plugins sections or as a general question because of the way the URL shows the zenAdminID on each page - and in the url the session number changes when I jump to login. Since I don't have that on my local system, I was leaning to some issue with sessions.

You mentioned that the zenAdminID follows you around ... has it *always* followed you around in the Admin?

Is your Admin *always* SSL or just when logging in?
I don't think the zenAdminID has ever shown in the URL - but, I can't say that for certain. I do know it doesn't show on my xampp system which is working correctly. I've also disabled SSL for all admin for the purposes of debugging this.

Try to avoid you actually posting your answer, but if you can compare from your:
/your_secret_admin/includes/configure.php

to what is in your Configuration ... Sessions ... does the
Session Directory

match what is in your configure.php file?

Does that also match what is in your:
/includes/configure.php

for your Store?
Dang - I thought you found it - it *was* pointing to my old account name (recently transferred site to new account name). But, I realigned all three places (two configure.php's and the Session Directory), cleared browser cache, and I still see the zenAdminID in the URL and get the login bounce. I also don't see any files getting written to this directory. I have permissions 777 on this directory - am I missing something else to get the sessions to write there?