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SOLUTION FOUND! Frustated, i rechecked my CCleaner Applications check list. I was using Opera, so left Firefox cookies unchecked. In a why-not mood, i checked Firefox. And then used Firefox to see if it was retaining the same sites cookies. Success! My extraneous Firefox cookies are now vaporized. My Opera cookies remain indestructible but I'm jumping ship to Firefox anyway, so i'm content with not solving that mystery. [Opera users: your cntrl+shift+L bulk downloads, Opera's clumsy equivalent of Firefox's Downthemall, may lose files. Mine does, an obviously fatal bug.] Anyway- it seems it was a bug in Ccleaner. Hope this helps others...

Uh, no, i didn't misunderstand. Your procedure [to judge by continuing presence of same damn cookies next time i open Ccleaner] just doesn't work. I *did* first click upper-left icon [of twin-pane cookies form], and then the lower-right icon. It just doesn't work. ????!!!

I thank you for trying to help, but it didn't. "Simply select the CCleaner icon again". What icon? The CCleaner program shortcut on my desktop is the only CCleaner icon i can find. But if i click on it [obviously enough] all that happens is that i now have two copies of Ccleaner open at once. That and i find the same old undeleted list of cookies.

Trying to use an uninstallable Cookienator, i read a report that Ccleaner has the same function. So i eagerly investigated it. I'm no longer so eager. I moved my valuable cookies into right-hand Keep panel. My problem: CCleaner has no Delete or Execute button, so, once sorted, you can't actually delete anything. The same evil cookies still appear in the left-hand "Cookies to delete" panel [and when i go to Opera's Advanced > Cookies, i see them there too]. Anybody know what's happening here???? puzzled user