Paypal confusion

I've been pasting Paypal buttons into my web pages from
snippets for years, and everything has worked great. I simply
pasted the snippet in, selected the various input fields, and
changed what was necessary. All of a sudden, my input fields are
being inserted with additional numbers in them, and when the
finished button is clicked on (in a trial buy) the customer is sent
to the main Paypal page rather than the cart.
I just download new paypal ecommerce stuff, and the webassist
extensions, but that only seemed to complicate things. Now I have
more that I don't understand.
Can anyone tell me how to get these buttons, including form
fields and selection menus, to work correctly again?
Other strange things are happening also, but this would be a
start.

Try getting your PayPal buttons NOT ENCODED and see if that
helps.
MD
bhludlow wrote:
> I've been pasting Paypal buttons into my web pages from
snippets for
> years, and everything has worked great. I simply pasted
the snippet
> in, selected the various input fields, and changed what
was
> necessary. All of a sudden, my input fields are being
inserted with
> additional numbers in them, and when the finished button
is clicked
> on (in a trial buy) the customer is sent to the main
Paypal page
> rather than the cart.
>
> I just download new paypal ecommerce stuff, and the
webassist
> extensions, but that only seemed to complicate things.
Now I have
> more that I don't understand.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get these buttons, including
form fields and
> selection menus, to work correctly again?
> Other strange things are happening also, but this would
be a start.

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