запуск сессии:
session_start();
if(!session_is_registered('expanded'))
{
$expanded=array();
session_register('expanded');
}
и затем предупреждение
Warning: Unknown: Your script possibly relies on a session side-effect which existed until PHP 4.2.3. Please be advised that the session extension does not consider global variables as a source of data, unless register_globals is enabled. You can disable this functionality and this warning by setting session.bug_compat_42 or session.bug_compat_warn to off, respectively. in Unknown on line 0