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I've just set up a Paypal Standard payment processor and membership contributions page, but I'm getting odd behaviour I don't know how to diagnose.  I'm using Paypal's sandbox to test it.

1) I used my sandbox buyer account to sign up at a certain membership level via my CiviContribute page

2) The paypal transaction seemed to go ok.  My sandbox email showed my buyer received a receipt, and my seller received a new purchase notification.  My seller's sandbox account showed the transaction as being successfully completed.

3) The CiviCM log file seemed happy:
Nov 25 15:12:35  [info] Contribution record updated successfully
Nov 25 15:12:36  [info] Success: Database updated and mail sent   

4) The contact record was created, and also the Drupal user account

5) The contact has no associated contribution record, and no membership

I don't know how to figure out what the problem is.  What would need to be failing to get this sort of behaviour?  Am I missing some obvious setting?  How can I troubleshoot further?

I'd really appreciate some help!

Thanks,
Jules

I think the "confusion" is that test contributions and memberships do NOT show up on the contact's contrib and membership tabs. (You said you were using the PP sandbox - so I'm assuming these are test-drive transactions.). You can find / verify them from Find Memberships and Find Contributions menu items  - check the "Find Test ..." checkbox in the search forms.