Quote Originally Posted by naani1 View Post
Now it does actually take me to the paypal website, but presents me with a screen which only has two fileds in it, one for the paypal account username and one for the paypal password and then a couple of links, one for sign up to paypal and one to return to the merchant.

what am I missing??? is this something that is required in my paypal account.
This is normal.
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