Sorry to anyone that tried to contact me! My email has changed and I was not able to reply directly!
I have never been able to get localstorage or sessionstorage to work in IE 8 or 9, or any browser for that matter! What am I doing wrong!! I think it requires HTML 5 which is not feasible yet.
I think this could be useful.
However, so far for me, my "EVIL" solution seems to work for me cross browser and in 2007 and 2010. Unfortunately it appears too complex or my explanation skills are just too poor to make it work for others which I do apologize!