cookies and msn login

[Dan]

I have my cookies setting to prompt me before allowing them.
I have been logged into my homepage (mymsn.com) for what seems like years...always had these settings.
Now I am being prompted to login...before I am able to enter my password, a page comes up that tells me that my cookies are disabled and that if I want to login I will have to enable them.
Does any one know how to fix this problem, I cannot access my hotmail account...even when I stop the page (before the error message page comes up) it tells me that my password is not correct.
I can't connect to their help center without getting the same message.
I had this happen about a month ago...reset my cookie settings and logged in...then reset my settings to where they have always been.
I have tried this a half dozen times with no luck...
any ideas??
thanks

[Dan]

well nevermind!
I figured out what was goin on:
on my homepage is a link to hotmail...this is what was prompting me for a password...
whileI had the setting for "prompt before accepting cookies" enabled, I had not changed the security slider to the lowest setting. after doing this I was able to log into mymsn.com, where I removed the link (box) for hotmail...now I won't be bothered to login there again.
I discovered that hotmail is experiencing some problems today, this is why I wasn't (and still am not) able to login from my home page, and also the hotmail site itself.
I hope nobody else had this problem, if so, I hope this helped.
...off to solve another problem I haven't experienced yet, God knows another MUST be on the horizon!!! lol