Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

I don't know why this is happening but Google's front page seems to constantly be losing the cookie or session from my browser.  Perhaps, it occurs when I shutdown the browser, but there's no way that we can automatically set the default preference length.  It really is annoying because as someone living in Japan but using the English version of the site, I would like the damn search engine to keep my preferences indefinitely, especially on my home PC.