Preserving form fields

Preserving form fields

Seems like I'm asking a lot of questions lately... learning a lot though!

Okay, so I have various forms that are being loaded onto a page via load(). (The user fills out the first page, clicks "Continue", gets to the next page, "Continue", etc...)  The form pages can be navigated via an accordion on the side.

That works fine- except that contents of the form fields are not preserved. Once he/she clicks Continue and moves on to the next form, the information is gone.

I don't want to have to do "Save" after every page. That involves accessing the database frequently, etc...

Is there a better way to do this? Am I missing something simple?

Thanks!