Allow users to save Interactive Reports

I have scanned this forum but cannot seem to find what I'm looking for. Can someone please tell me exactly what needs to happen so that users can save their own versions of Interactive Reports? What do the authentication settings need to be? How does the user need to be logged in? Etc. We are using APEX 3.1 with 10g release 2. We use our own tables to do user authentication and authorization. Currently users are logged in using the post_login process so the APP_USER reflects their userid, but yet they do not see the Save Report option in an interactive report even though the option is checked. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Rick

Thanks for the input. I think the issue may be that I am noit logging the user in correctly so they are still APEX_PUBLIC_USER. The way our authentication works is that I get the user's id from a cookie passed by our companies secured login process. Once I obtain their ID from the cookie, I want to log them into my applications using that ID. If the cookie does not exist, they are redirected to the corporate login page. Do you know how I should be loggin the users into my applications? As I said, I tried using the wwv_flow_custom_auth_std.post_login API to log them in with the user id from the cookie, but it doesn't seem to be doing what I need.
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