You don't need to dig a 4-year old
thread out of its grave to find that out, Bill. We don't charge extra for starting your own threads. In fact, we prefer it.
Actually, SSO is most effective when it
is co-ordinating security between multiple servers. So that, regardless of the machine, OS, application framework, you sign on once and that makes you transparently known to all participating apps in the shop.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.