Well, quite easily, that'd be a cross domain cookie issue, as www and non-www aren't technically the same domain (like using forum.yoursite.tld and www.yoursite.tld); what I usually recommend people do is set (in their htaccess file) which domain they'd like to use and have apache forward any alternative requests to the primary domain...

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