Can somebody sanity check me?

[foxfirefey]

So, I've gotten into this weird situation on my hack. No matter what I do, my accounts are always Free accounts. I've tried:

* Buying them paid account time in the shop using points, theoretically successfully
* Running workers in case that's what sets it somehow
* Going into admin/capedit and manually setting flags, such as Premium Paid

All to no effect--the account remains free. Anybody replicating this or know what I am doing wrong?