Safari cookies

Hi there, new to the board. Well here goes, trying to login into a bank's website and I get an error message saying cookies are not enabled. Verified all is good,
I have reset cache, turned private browsing on and eventually I get in. I input my info and when I login again all is lost and the message re-appears. I have gone to disk utility and did a repair permissions, created a new user, downloaded 4.1.3 again, still the same. I should point out that we both share the same computer and my access to the bank is fine.
Running 10.4.11 on imac and again safari 4.1.3.
thanks in advance

Won't log her out? There isn't anywhere on the site that offers a logout? That's unusual. Especially for a banking sites as most will log you out automatically after a certain amount of non activity for security issues.
I doubt removing the bank keychains will make a difference but there is something else to try.
Quit Safari. Open Keychain Access  (Applications/Utilities) Select Passwords on the left.
Delete the Safari Forms Autofill keychain.
Relaunch Safari. See if that helped.
Sympatico? I'm not familliar with that.

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