Session Madness

Hello all,

I'm working on a custom cms project and stumbled across ckfinder the other day. Despite my limited php exposure I've actually had a pretty easy time getting things going on my server. That is, until I tried to configure access control using session variables.

For testing purposes or at least until I fully grasp the concept, I'm using the standalone sample php page.

I start said page off with:

<?php
// Session Info
session_start();
$_SESSION['CKFinder_UserRole'] = 'admin';
?>

Back in the config doc, I've uncommented the session_start() call and have the access control attributes set up like this:

$config['RoleSessionVar'] = $_SESSION['CKFinder_UserRole'];
session_start();

$config['AccessControl'][] = Array(
      'role' => 'admin',
      'resourceType' => '*',
      'folder' => '/',

      'folderView' => true,
      'folderCreate' => true,
      'folderRename' => true,
      'folderDelete' => true,

      'fileView' => true,
      'fileUpload' => true,
      'fileRename' => true,
      'fileDelete' => true);

When I load up the page on the server, I'm getting the ckfinder layout but no files or folders.
If I change the role attibute back to "*" I see everything, but then again so will everyone else.

What am I doing wrong? Pulling what little hair I have left out at this point, any input would be very welcome