Though I am normally a lurker on any forum I glance at, this one reminds me constantly to post an introduction. Here's hoping that after this post or the next it will cease to do so.

It's wonderful that a resource such as this one exists. I regret that my own level of expertise with this material is so low that I don't expect to be of much use to other forum readers except perhaps, hypothetically, in the sense of accurately preserving communal memory about a fix whose original post was migrated out of existence (like the infamous [to me] osCommerce Documentation by OSCdox :: osCommerce and osCMax documentation - a post by Michael Sasek intended to help people send Paypal customers back to the right page in the shopping cart, post payment) that I both noticed and understood. Odds of such a specialized situation occurring seem slim, but I remain cautiously optimistic that I'll either learn enough to become marginally useful in some other way or that history will repeat and I can regurgitate some long-held tidbit of information like those I seek to nourish some other poor gormless newb and help him or her leap from the nest without the usual accompanying dull thud.

I'm almost done with the broad strokes of configuring an OscMax online store with about 20,000 different products/images and (thankfully) no product attributes at all. As I test the payment modules, I'm having some difficulties with the Paypal IPN handler/listener, as well as the issue the phantom file linked above is reputed to discuss. I'll outline exactly what the problems are in another post somewhere other than the Introductions forum. I'll call the thread "No connection with IPN handler/listener."