I have an email conversation going with my ABC area rep. He is working on it from his end. If that doesn't work I guess I'll have to go through Paypal. I don't want to be a witch though. If there are problems that can be fixed, I'd rather let the ABC people take care of it instead of Paypal. Plus, I too would like to join and it seems pretty hateful to get Paypal involved without trying through the membership first. Fingers crossed that my area rep can figure out what is going on.