HELP... Affiliate variable disappears after page load!

I am racking my brain, everytime the page loads this part (ref=username) disappears I know it has something to do with the tracking code but I don't know how to change the code to stop the (ref) from disappearing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks...

Have you checked to make sure the affiliate has already been credited for the click?

Once it is stored, there no need for the string to remain, unless you are doing some sort of custom tracking or sending of info to another program.

Yes... I am passing the referring affiliate id to my autoresponder... I did get it to work however by commenting out the last line of the tracking code. Thanks.