OK again...ignore my last couple of posted replies.
I deleted the confirm and checkout pages and rebuilt them. All is fine now.
Now back to communicating the new "special instructions" field within my checkout page to Paypal...
I put the code into the program right after the existing two codes to transfer style and engraving information (which both of those work).
Did a test and did not see anything pass to Paypal (nor onto the confirmation page - which I'm not sure I would see it there or not?).
Am I putting the code in correctly - wrong area - wrong something?
Instead of naming it os0, should I name it os2 (since I already have an os0 and os1)?
thanks.