Solved: Yay. In addition to what you wrote Drew, I found this: http://www.smooka.com/blog/2009/07/24/maintaining-php-session-when-using-curl/ session_write_close(); before initializing the next set. Now I just need to figure out AJAX/jquery, because it looks like I can't register resource variables (e.g. Curl's handle) in a session.
I want to login to a site using cURL. Their login process uses a token which I am able to parse using file_get_contents(). However, when I try to access the site again using cURL, the token is no longer good. Is there a way read the file using cURL, pause to do the calculations/steps, and then post the fields? Is there a better way?