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We have memberships that recur automatically using a credit card. In cases where memberships have expired, the former member needs to enter an new membership (with new recurring contribution) but a new membership is not created. The recurring contribution is created, but not linked to a any membership so the status is not updated. When there is no pre-existing expired membership, the membership entry form works fine. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that this is a recent problem and that people used to be able to enter a second membership using our membership form. Another factor, I am using Civicrm 3.4, but we are about to upgrade. Could this be a problem of the version that could be fixed in an upgrade?