In case anyone runs into this problem, I was able to get this work by by putting the session_start in a if statement based on the useragent. I got the code from this link below and below that is the code I used.
exclude sessions
PHP Code:
$spiders = array("Googlebot","WebCrawler","Slurp","Fast","Scooter","Fluid","Zeal","Wget","archiver","ZyBorg ","Mantra","MSN","scrub","Teoma","Jeeves","msnbot","phpdig");
foreach($spiders as $Val)
{
if (eregi($Val, $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
{
$spider_count++;
}
}
if ($spider_count == "0") {
session_start();
}
}