Originally Posted by Dovster
After reading your reply, I thought that possibly the problem had been fixed. Again, I logged out. Again, I was told that my cookies had been cleared.
I closed IE, returned to this page, and am answering without logging in again.

Press CTRL + ALT + DEL and go to processes to see if explorer is running in the background possibly but not appearing on the Windows task bar.
If you have more than one browser open (particularly to FT), clearing the cookies may not help.
I have no issue logging out either.
If the "Log Out" is not working for you, then the work around may be to go to Tools in Explorer, go to Internet Options and delete cookies. Then exit IE and relaunch.