PHP - Error 500 after page refresh - php

I've got a PHP application and I'm having trouble getting a User object from the SESSION.
When saving the object I have the following code (some other file).
$_SESSION['user'] = serialize($user);
The problem begins when I try and load a file called timeline.php. The first time I load the page (after I've logged in and the SESSION['user] is set) the page works fine. When I refresh the page I get an error 500.
The error log shows this:
Call to a member function get() on a non-object in timeline.php on line 10.
The code from line 2-10 is this:
include_once('isUserLoggedIn.php');
require_once('classes/User.php');
session_start();
$user = unserialize($_SESSION['user']);
require_once('classes/Database.php');
$tweets = Database::getTimeline($user->get('user_id'));
Can anyone offer any reason for this?
UPDATE (1)
In timeline.php I added var_dump($user) to line 8. The first time I load the page it gives me the correct value.
The second time I load the page it gives me bool(false).
UPDATE (2)
The problem seems to be with the host (perhaps a setting in the php.ini file there). The company I was using is Fatcow. When I used someone elses host (1and1) the issue didn't happen.

When unserializing objects lots of strange things can occur, see the PHP manual page for more information.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.unserialize.php
This comment seems pertinent:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.unserialize.php#77826

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[__tags] => Array
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[name] => #document
[namespace] =>
[namespaces] => Array
(
)
[value] =>
[attributes] => Array
(
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[children] => Array
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Create a file called php.ini with the following content:
allow_url_fopen = ON
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