>For the last 17 years, I entered my user id / password on the main screen, clicked remember me and that was it. With the recent changes, it remembers me for an hour, sometimes a day, but it seems like every day I have to reenter the information. Is there something I'm missing?

Is this something you also have from another PC, another browser? The cookie processing mechanism is the same as it was. Could there be any security software installed that will forbid to have long time cookie to be stored for Web site?