Checking out - issue Shipping & Taxes!!!

I am at odds end. Certain i am missing something and hope you can help out.

i have manual inputted all states and %'s

Enable shipping on product.

At order time however:

1. On entry order product no qty lable for order form?

2. place order

3. checkout

4 login

5. easy checkout

6. some times to shipping

7. no sales tax (location NY)

8. on confirmation goes to homepage. Again with strange URL like something is missing?!!

Also on Empty cart when redirect to cart -- error, i just want to go to screen that says no items in cart. Does not work for me.

i added Profile Tax with 3 states, assigned profile to prodcut and all states appear now. order is in NY. i am totally confused

And i did figure out to confirm order via menu assignment

So Sorry, please try again - same credentials