Magento Customer Account Sharing across multiple websites - magento

I have a single magento installation (ver 1.6) and created 3 websites for USA, UK and Europe each has its own store and store view I want to implement multi-currency and sharing one shopping cart among all these three websites. Everything is fine but when I select
System>Configuration>Default>Customer Configuration>Share Customer
Accounts to Global
, I get the following error after successful login tries to redirect customer
Fatal error: Cannot unset string offsets in /home/wwwabc/public_html/lib/Varien/Object.php on line 293
Sometimes login successfully redirect to My Account page and this error displayed when customer clicks on "Logout" I think there is some session/cookie issue but could not figure it out.
Anyone can help quickly please...?

are u sharing cart on website level or store levels. Default magento share shopping cart on store view levels?

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