trouble with subdomain cookies and IE

[bakedbean]

I am setting a fairly standard cookie, but I need it to be available across subdomains. So as shown in the docs, I set the domain as ".domain.com".  In Firefox and Safari, this works fine, the cookie is available across all sub domains.  But in IE (6 and 7) the cookie isn't seen on any subdomains.  I've modified the IE privacy settings to allow 3rd party cookies, and loosened the security settings, but no luck... anyone else experienced something like this?  I have to think there's still some weird setting in IE that needs to be changed to allow this...?

 

My code:

setcookie("the_name","the_value",time()+4000,"/",".domain.com");

 

I have verified that the cookie is getting set, but only on http://domain.com, once I switch to a subdomain like "sub.domain.com" the cookie isn't there.

 

Any advice is appreciated.

[dezkit]

change

setcookie("the_name","the_value",time()+4000,"/",".domain.com");

to

setcookie("the_name","the_value",time()+4000,"/","*.domain.com");

[bakedbean]

tried that, and no change, cookie is still not showing up under subdomains