I think I have solved it. And basically, it boiled down to information I did not give in my initial message to you all, because I did not think of it till lunch today. But, I have tried the following and the Session variables seem to be able to hold their values. Basically, I thnink the problem occurred because I was not creating the session variables until I needed them, and hence I created them only at that time in lower level pages of the application. I now have created them all in my initial menu page regardless whether they have any values at that time or not (those that don't I simply initial to the empty string "".) It seems to make them global throughout the remaining pages as I need. I am not using the global.asa file yet, but I suppose I should actually initialize all the session variables there.

I really appreciate the help and would like to hear your comments on the above solution. I am new to ASP and the concept above (if correct) might just be a basic concept.