Cart Page not holding items

Hi,

Having to do with checkout and probably the login page also:

When a person adds the items to the cart page, then selects the checkout, they are automatically taken to the login page. That is fine.

After logging in from the checkout button the person logs in, they are now taken directly to the checkout page. This began occurring when I applied ssl to ecart tutorial (I had the whole site on ssl before) They should be taken to the login page as if they were logging in from any other page but checkout. Wondering if you can help me with this...

You can see from the login page the Log In success rule should apply instead of immediately being directed to the checkout page.

The other issue is the cart page is not storing the items selected in the cart page. The items need to be in the cart, so if they decide to change the order, they will be able to do so. Again, this happened after the ssl was applied.

Please help...

Thank you,

johna1964