Paypal looping

[nanial]

I'm having several issues that may or may not be related.
Paypal v 1.3.8 -

prestashop 1.6.09

 

 express checkout is currently enabled on product page and shopping cart

  First assuming that a customer starts out on the website, not logged in.  When a product is added to the cart, the cart claims "free shipping" instead of some other more appropriate message regarding shipping. 



then whilst using express checkout paypal from product page it still shows no taxes and no shipping - guess that is fine, they don't know where I am. 

 

 

But then after logging into paypal, still no tax or shipping.
 

 

 

So now it take me back to my cart where I can choose shipping providers. Shipping shows up, but taxes no.

Then it errors out if I try to check out again. 

 

Now I clear the cart, (but I'm still logged into prestashop  from some user that presta created for checkout) and I try a different product. and it just has an eternal loop from paypal to shopping cart as follows. 

I've tried checking out different screens and logged in and not logged in and I have a variety of problems.   

but none result in checkout.   I was able to make orders and recieve payments yesterday,but I was trying to resolve some excessive shipping problems and the whole thing broke. I can't figure it out, but I suspect the issue may be tax related, perhaps shipping. I dunno. But I've read and read, and cant seem to fix any of these issue. 

[nanial]

It seem like even when I'm logged in, it doesn't grab the tax rate in the summary. 

Edited November 29, 2014 by nanial (see edit history)

[nanial]

I'm just going to bump this.