Yeah, this happened one of the first times I used the site. His server-side copy of bitcoind.exe got hung up, causing all trades (and desposits/withdrawls) to be nonfunctional. Once restarted, things worked fine, and I haven't had any major issues since. Well, at least none that are his fault (right now Google OpenID is partially broken, probably due to the Google+ launch).
This is probably not up to date but I thought bitcoin4cash and bitcoin2cash were both run by the same person and the sites basically worked together as a way to change BTC into PayPal and vise versa. Before setting up the site the owner told paypal what he was planning on doing and paypal either gave him to go-ahead or didn't respond. About two months later paypal shut his account down because his site supposedly violated some odd rule.
As you mentioned, you were a bit mixed up. Bitcoin
4cash and Bitcoin2
cc are two sites both run by MadHatter, and there was controversy regarding his trading practices a while ago. Coinpal and Coincard are the ones that were run by Mndrix and were shut down by PayPal after several months of successful, authorized operation. All four of those sites are/were run by a singular person (either MadHatter or mndrix) and you're trading directly with that one person. Bitcoin2cash here is its own separate entity, a full exchange like MtGox where you post your bids or offers, and the focus is on anonymity.
Quite easy to get confused, with all the similar names and all.
