This page will allow you to see the cookie using javascript so you know if you set it right. You have to run it out of the domain you want to see it with.
<head>
<title>Test Page</title>
<meta name="generator" content="BBEdit 6.1.2">
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" language="Javascript">
<!--
alert(document.cookie);
//-->
</script>
</body>
In php you can simply use the cookie by just typing $cookname. Where cookname is that is the name you gave it when you wrote it. Cookies can be accessed just like any other variable.
Hope that helps.
Daniel
http://www.coderguy.com