Cookie Problem With JSP and Tomcat

Question

I have a tiny web application developed for my project thing.
I am facing a problem while maintaining sessions with Cookie. I use Tomcat 3.2.1 Web Server and JSP 1.2 Specifications for my web application.
I have created a page which creates a cookie and stores it in the client's PC, so when the same client visits the site, he can be remembered. Now while surfing the site in the same session, the site remembers the client. But once the client closes the browser and tries connecting to the site, he cannot be remembered. So I took a look into Temporary Internet Files of the client PC and found no cookie there. So where the cookie gets created and why does it disappears with the session. I have set a time limit of 1 year in the cookie.
Now is that a Problem with Tomcat or with the configuration settings of IE in the client PC?? Or something else???
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Answer 1

Thanks for your reply.
following is the code for how do i create a cookie...
<%
     String custno = custBean.createPreferred();
     Cookie c = new Cookie("pc", custno);
     c.setVersion(1);
     c.setPath("/");
     c.setComment("PreferredCustomer");
     c.setDomain("think_machine");
//think_machine is the name of the Web Server(Tomcat)
     c.setMaxAge(365*24*60*60);
     response.addCookie(c);
%>
And the code to read a cookie is..
     String custID = null;
     Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();
     for(int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++)
          if(cookies.getName().equals("pc"))
               custID = cookies[i].getValue();
               break;
One more thing I would like to let you know, that i access this from the same PC on which the Web Server is installed. Means the Server and the client are both one and the same PC.