Buck, thanks for wanting to renew. Sent you a PM on that.

With regard to PayPal, any time the credit card you have on file with PayPal changes or expires, PayPal cancels the auto-renewal on any subscriptions you have. (for a person's protection)

If a person ever runs into that, or needs to renew for any reason, best bet is to start a new subscription on this page. Your CTF log-in and password remain the same.
http://www.ctfisherman.com/subscribe.html

Nothing is truly safe in this day and age, but I've done thousands of transactions through PayPal. It is a secure in environment.

The problem lies when people's card or bank account numbers get compromised (which I'm sure many of us have experienced), then the hackers go nuts with anything tied to that account number (PayPal, iTunes, eBay, Amazon, etc.)