hey there thanks for replying again,
I don't require users to share sessions across the two contexts, they are completely different sites, so a user logging into one context should not then be logged in to the second context.
The biggest issue for the moment is that I take a snippet call, place it in context 1 and it works fine, place it in context 2 and it doesn't work...very odd
just one I wrote, which echo's a bit of text, just so I could use it to test with. So it should work in both contexts but doesnt