Sharepoint logs out of your life

WSS 3.0 seems precarious in the way it decides to log out. It seems as though I always have facebook and gmail open on my computer. While working on my sharepoint site I was switching users to see what the different users in the different groups see. I noticed that when I logged of the user on the sharepoint site, facebook and gmail also logged out. Sweet. Very inconvenient.

I haven't looked this up online, but I'm going to take a stab in the dark and state that sharepoint must delete all the cookies when it logs out. If you are reading this and know the answer, feel free to leave me a comment.

I may or may not look into stopping this nuisance. But since it's not really broke, why try and fix what ain't broke eh?

WSS Training

I found an excellent source text for configuration of Windows SharePoint Services on TechNet:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287736(TechNet.10).aspx

More resources:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/aa905692.aspx - screencasts offer an excellent run through of the topics.