Multiple items for sale on a page

I'm new to this and after some considerable stumbling managed to get the add to basket option to work.

For multiple items should each item reside in its own form or can they co-exist in a table.?

What should the option labels be? i.e do the all have On0 for the option and quantity for the number of items?

Everything I have tried seems to ignore the mutiple number of items except for the first entry on the page. Also does not seem to act on the two different prices.

Really would appreciate some help if only to point me to the appropriate documentation.

Finally is there a way to stop the screen navigating directly to the paypal basket after each entry. I only want to go there when all orders have been entered.

I have not posted any code as still experimenting so it would be out of date when viewed.

Thanks

ken