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I realize the subject may not be proper English, but does anyone have any thoughts regardless? 

do you have your Scheduled Jobs set up (can't recall if this would affect payment status or not)

hmm - don't think they do - but here is link anyhow - http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/job?reset=1

if this is with recurring payments then I doubt you can replicate on demo

hmmm - maybe i should read slower - if this is about Membership Status then maybe the Scheduled Job is involved

Well maybe it is correct... it sure sounds funny!

Hershel: I had not been able to recreate on the demo site before, but I might try again since last time I did I didn't know as much.

petednz: The Scheduled Job for Membership status processor is not currently scheduled, though I have run it thinking that it might affect this but it did not. I'm not sure if membership status is the culprit, it just seems involved. The main issue is that auto-renew payments (for memberships in this case) just sit at pending, even though PayPal processes it fine (i.e. charges the first payment and creates a recurring payment profile).

Dave: That would make sense; I was thinking the reverse maybe. I did try signing up for a few auto-renew memberships live (for $1) and the same thing happened. Card was charged, profile set up and membership pending.

I have taken a few weeks off from this since we decided it was okay to do it more manually for a little while, but it's still something that isn't working and we would like fixed of course. I appreciate the responses, I will hopefully have some more time to dig back in tomorrow/this weekend.

Yes the contribution is still pending - "Pending (Incomplete Transaction)" and the membership was pending until I went in and edited it. I didn't change anything about the membership at all, I just clicked edit and then save, but by editing it the member since date was automatically filled in and then the membership was "New" after saving.

But that's a good point, like Dave said too, I guess maybe the Contribution is what is holding all this up. Originially I thought it was a PayPal IPN issue and maybe that's still part of it with Civi dealing with the recurring contribution.