Thank you, Nicolas, for that very quick reply. After I clear the cache in Firefox the error message disappears briefly, but comes back as soon as I try to save any changes. However, everything works fine in IE, and the PayPal process is now working. The public end of the site seems to work fine in Firefox, so I'll just have to go on using IE for the admin side.
However, I now have a problem with account creation. I'll check the forum, and post that separately if I can't find an answer. These problems are miniscule compared to the ones I was having with Vmart 2, and overall I love HikaShop! I'll be posting a glowing review on the Joomla! extensions site just as soon as I've finished setting it up.