PayPal error for new customers

[spottedsparrow]

A new customer purchases an item and selects PayPal as their payment method.  When they finish the checkout process on my site and are directed to PayPal, PayPal displays the following error message:

"Some required information is missing or incomplete. Please correct your entries and try again."

I am having a hell of a time trying to resolve this.  The problem does not occur if a customer is already logged in before adding products to their cart and making a purchase.  It only seems to happen when a new customer creates an account during the order process.

Site: http://www.spottedsparrow.com
User Registration Type: Normal
Joomla! User registration allowed: Yes
Joomla! New account activation necessary: No

PayPal Payment Extra Info
This was working perfectly until recently.  I've used the improved configuration from http://www.gjcwebdesign.com/configuration-paypal-payment-module-virtuemart.html, along with the multi-currency hack from http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=49967.0.

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<?php

$mycash = "";
if ($_SESSION['product_currency'] == "EUR" )
      {
      $mycash = "EUR";
      }
elseif ($_SESSION['product_currency'] == "AUD" )
      {
      $mycash = "AUD";
      }
elseif ($_SESSION['product_currency'] == "CAD" )
      {
      $mycash = "CAD";
      }
elseif ($_SESSION['product_currency'] == "GBP" )
      {
      $mycash = "GBP";
      }
else
{$mycash = "USD";}

$url = "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr";
$order_id = $db->f("order_id");
$tax_total = $db->f("order_tax") + $db->f("order_shipping_tax");
$discount_total = $db->f("coupon_discount") + $db->f("order_discount");  
 
// Query for Order Items
$dboi = new ps_DB;
$q_oi = "SELECT * FROM #__vm_order_item ";
$q_oi .= "WHERE #__vm_order_item.order_id='$order_id'";
$dboi->query($q_oi);
 
$row_num = $dboi->num_rows();
 
//Getting Cart Items
$auth = $_SESSION['auth'];
$cart = $_SESSION['cart'];
$t_quantity = 0;
$disc_perItem = 0;
$i=1;
 
// Query to get User Info
$dbb = new ps_DB;
$q = "SELECT * FROM #__vm_user_info ";
$q .= "WHERE user_id ='".$my->id."' ";
$dbb->setQuery($q);
$dbb->query();
 
//logic for applying discounts to multiple items
$discount_totalCP = $db->f("coupon_discount") + $db->f("order_discount");
 
while($dboi->next_record()) {
  $t_quantity = $t_quantity + intval($dboi->f("product_quantity"));
}
 
$dboi = null;
$dboi = new ps_DB;
$dboi->query($q_oi);
 
if($t_quantity > 0)
{
  if($discount_totalCP > 0) {
    $disc_perItem = round($discount_totalCP / $t_quantity, 2);
  }
  else {
    $disc_perItem = 0;
  }
}
else {
  $disc_perItem = 0;
}
//query to optain product attributes
while($dboi->next_record()) {
 
  $prod_attrib = $dboi->f("product_attribute");
  $supp_var['item_name_' . $i] = strip_tags("Order #". $db->f("order_id").": ". $dboi->f("order_item_name"));
 
  if($prod_attrib > ''){
    $attributes_array = explode('<br/>',$prod_attrib);
    $v = 0;
    $z = 1;
    foreach ( $attributes_array as $attributes_value){
      $attrib_name = trim(substr($attributes_value, 0, strpos($attributes_value, ':')), " ");
      $supp_var['on' . $z . '_' . $i] = $attrib_name;
      $attrib_sel = trim(substr_replace(substr_replace($attributes_value, "", 0, strrpos($attributes_value, ':')), "", 0, 2));
      $supp_var['os' . $z . '_' . $i] = $attrib_sel;
      $v++;
      $z++;
      unset($attributes_value);
    }
  }
 
  $supp_var['item_number_' . $i] = $dboi->f("order_item_sku");
  $supp_var['quantity_' . $i] = $dboi->f("product_quantity");
  $supp_var['amount_' . $i] = round(($dboi->f("product_item_price") - $disc_perItem),2);
  $i++;
}
 
 
//Query used to find whether to use Bill Address or Ship to address
$dboui = new ps_DB;
$q_oui = "SELECT * FROM #__vm_order_user_info ";
$q_oui .= "WHERE #__vm_order_user_info.order_id='$order_id' ORDER BY #__vm_order_user_info.order_info_id DESC";
$dboui->query($q_oui);
 
/*$oui_id = $dboui->f("order_info_id");
 
if($oui_id == $order_id){
  $first_name = $dbb->f("first_name");
  $last_name = $dbb->f("last_name");
  $address1 = $dbb->f("address_1");
  $address2 = $dbb->f("address_2");
  $city = $dbb->f("city");
  $state = $dbb->f("state");
  $address_country = $dbbt->f("country");
  $zip = $dbb->f("zip");
  $H_PhoneNumber = $dbb->f("phone_1");
}
else {*/
  $first_name = $dboui->f("first_name");
  $last_name = $dboui->f("last_name");
  $address1 = $dboui->f("address_1");
  $address2 = $dboui->f("address_2");
  $city = $dboui->f("city");
  $state = $dboui->f("state");
  $address_country = $dboui->f("country");
  $zip = $dboui->f("zip");
  $H_PhoneNumber = $dboui->f("phone_1");
//}
 
// Builds array for the form
$post_variables = Array(
"cmd" => "_cart",
"upload" => "1",
"page_style" => "paypal",
"business" => PAYPAL_EMAIL,
"currency_code" => $_SESSION['product_currency'],
"amount" => round( $db->f("order_subtotal")+$tax_total-$discount_total, 2),
"handling_cart" => sprintf("%.2f", $db->f("order_shipping")),
"tax" => $tax_total,
"tax_cart" => $tax_total,
"invoice" => $db->f("order_number"),
"image_url" => $vendor_image_url,
"return" => SECUREURL ."index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=checkout.result&order_id=".$db->f("order_id"),
"notify_url" => SECUREURL ."administrator/components/com_virtuemart/notify.php",
"cancel_return" => SECUREURL ."index.php",
"no_shipping" => "1",
"no_note" => "1",
"email" => $dbb->f("user_email"),
"address_override" => "1",//change this to 0 if you have - Paypal does not allow your country of residence to ship to the country you wish to - errors
"first_name" => $first_name,
"last_name" => $last_name,
"address1" => $address1,
"address2" => $address2,
"city" => $city,
"state" => $state,
"country" => $address_country,
"zip" => $zip,
"night_phone_b" => $H_PhoneNumber
);
//add and send the new variables
if( $page == "checkout.thankyou" ) {
  $query_string = "?";
 
  foreach( $post_variables as $name => $value ) {
    $query_string .= $name. "=" . urlencode($value) ."&";
  }
 
  if(is_array($supp_var) && count($supp_var)) {
    foreach($supp_var as $name => $value) {
      $query_string .= $name. "=" . urlencode($value) ."&";
    }
  }
 
  vmRedirect( $url . $query_string );
} 
else {
  echo '<form action="'.$url.'" method="post" target="_blank">';
 
  foreach( $post_variables as $name => $value ) {
    echo '<input type="hidden" name="'.$name.'" value="'.$value.'" />';
  }
 
  if(is_array($supp_var) && count($supp_var)) {
    foreach($supp_var as $name => $value) {
      echo '<input type="hidden" name="'.$name.'" value="'.$value.'" />';
    }
  }
  echo '<input type="image" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but6.gif" border="0" alt="Make payments with PayPal, it is fast, free, and secure!">';
//Change the above image url for different languages and countries
  echo '</form>';
}
?>

Does anyone have any idea what needs to be changed or what I need to look at?  I would appreciate any and all feedback!

[spottedsparrow]

http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=59668.msg199060#msg199060

I found this post by Stinga, which includes his PayPal Extra Info.  After switching to that code, everything seems to be working.  The correct currency is transmitted to PayPal, along with the order information.

[hrhsii]

your missing the business email!

"business" => PAYPAL_EMAIL,

Need to put your paypal email "email@domain.com" their