.htaccess, make login required everytime?

Hi, I am developing a site and am implementing .htaccess to protect the admin site of the page which you can pretty much control everything with. It seems to work I just have this concern because when I use the same browser, I can go to the admin section the first time and it will show a login screen, but everytime after it will just let me right it. I can even reboot the webserver and it still does it. I was wondering if apache sets cookies or something to make who has been to the .htaccess protected dir and tags them for further easy auth? Im not sure I just want to know how I can make apache ask for authentication EVERY time something in the .htaccess dir is accessed. I compiled apache with digest and am using that. I had the same problem when I was using basic too. If this cant be fixed should I just hand code my own auth scheme with sql or something?

-sabre

>> I just want to know how I can make apache ask for authentication EVERY time something in the .htaccess dir is accessed

It's a feature, not a bug, if you don't like it, you can always use another type of authentication.