Anonymous checkout with UC and PayPal WPS not working - drupal

I'm trying to use PayPal WPS with my Ubercart, and I'd like for the user to not have to create an account on my site before placing an order. However, if I enable "anonymous checkout", then go through the process of a PayPal transaction, when PayPal redirects back to my site, it never creates a new user account.
It successfully updates the order with the payment from PayPal, but doesn't create a new user with which to associate the order, so all the user information is lost.
What could I be missing here? I believe I've followed all the steps on the UC side and on the PayPal side to enable anonymous checkout, but it still fails to automatically create a new user based on the PayPal transaction.

hey, i had this issue too, what solved it for me was going into the DB, checking users table and making sure the 1st row which is for anonymous users has the primary key as 0, try this if it doesnt let me know, Chris

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I'm setting up a woo commerce store where the customer has to ask for permission before creating an account on the store. How do I do that?
Provide background:
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