Seems PayPal is having serious problems now, so you may expect all kind of troubles with them. More information can be found here: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/041011/paypal_outage_1.html http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6471116 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6228586/ http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/12/0255227.shtml?tid=95&tid=1