Happens to me sometimes too.
From what I understand paypal are using a third party to do the instant confirmation and if that agent is offline (which happens sometimes) then the error message is received.
Try again in a few minutes and you should be able to get it done. At least that's how it was for me on a couple of occasions I got that message.
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