The problem is exactly:
Warning: Unknown(): Your script possibly relies on a session side-effect which existed until PHP
4.2.3. Please be advised that the session extension does not consider global variables as asource
of data, unless register_globals is enabled. You can disable this functionality and this warning
by setting session.bug_compat_42 or session.bug_compat_warn to off, respectively.
Without actually seeing the code that is all I can say...