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I just got an e-mail from a customer that purchased membership to my site and the transaction did not go through.  After some investigating I can see that my paypal account received the funds but that this customer's account on my site did not get moved into the appropriate member group.  :-(  What is strange is that there was another purchase made just before his and that transaction worked.  I can see that he is downloading products. 

Are there instructions for this somewhere?

Still not able to send out my newsletter. 

Here is what I have attempted so far:

I found the TinyMCE support forum and read where a bunch of people are trying to allow their users who use tinymce to change the formatting background and link colors.  Finally found enough hints to make the newsletter look good in tinymce.  The trick for me was to wrap everything in a <div></div> and then change the things you want like the background color within that <div>. 

<div "style = background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Newsletter</div>

But even now. . . my links don't work.  But they don't work in a different way. . . I'm thinking you might have been working on my site trying to de-bug it because all the links now go to a white page that has:

link: http://link.address.com

I'm kind of desperate to get this newsletter out so I'm going to un-install the plugin, re-install it and hope that that undoes your changes and I can get it to finally work.

I just thought I'd post this here so you were aware that I was aware of this thing you had done. 

The problem with the newsletter appears to have something to do with me re-naming the tiny_mce folder.  Running my newsletter through tiny_mce makes it look like poo but the links work.  Without tiny_mce it looks fine but none of the links work.   

Ok I did that step.  I also cleared out the error log. . . thinking that was part of what was needed but then realized you only wanted me to perform step one.  Crap.  I'll try and make it spit out some errors in the log.

Edit:  Tried to submit the product again to the store and this time it spat out a different error:

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 4
File: /home/setuptab/public_html/Themes/default/Store.template.php
Line: 1049

I thought I could somehow trick it by using tinyURL links.  Didn't work. 

pm sent.

I think I know what happened.  In preparing for what I hope is a surge in traffic from this newsletter, I went through my site and tried to optimize it as best I could.  Getting rid of features that were not being used, cleaning out some old sections etc.  Then in the admin/Forum Maintenance area I clicked on "Convert HTML-entities to UTF-8 characters"  It said:

This function will convert all characters that are stored in the database as HTML-entities to UTF-8 characters. This is especially useful when you have just converted your forum from a character set like ISO-8859-1 while non-latin characters were used on the forum. The browser then sends all characters as HTML-entities. For example, the HTML-entity &#945; represents the greek letter α (alpha). Converting entities to UTF-8 will improve searching and sorting of text and reduce storage size.

Sounds good to me. . . so I clicked it. . . it did it's thing and I moved on.  MAYBE the newsletter code doesn't like this optimization?