Paypal ipn - Empty IPN and wrong date. Used to work - php

I have a website with a simple ticket shop built into it using IPN. It has been working for the past month and I left it alone. I was working on another payment site on the same webhost and for the first time i specified the "notification_url". I noticed that I couldn't get any response from PayPal on my new build and left it there. I then checked to see that my orginal system was still working at least; It was not.
For some reason when i check my IPN history the "latest delivery atempt" is "1984/12/14 04:53:12 CET (UTC+1)". The worst thing is that it also sais "Notification url: ". Empty.
This aparently returned 200 and success allthough my access logs show no traffic to my ipn-page. I have logs running and i havn't modified either code. I can access the IPN url manualt and it will get logged. No html login and no restrictions.
Heres my payment form:
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="8TPEJKFGZEJBS">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="sv_SE">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="'.$text.'">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="'.$order_id.'">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="'.$cost.'">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="SEK">
<input type="hidden" name="button_subtype" value="services">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="rm" value="2">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://mywebsite.com/?page=13&done">
<input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value="http://mywebsite.com/? page=13&cancel">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-BuyNowBF:btn_paynowCC_LG.gif:NonHosted">
<input type="image" style="border: none;" src="images/buy.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - Det tryggare, enklare sättet att betala online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/sv_SE/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>
What is wrong and what should i try to fix it?

You just need to add a field "notify_url" in your form. This URL is your IPN file url.
<input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="http://mywebsite.com/?page=13&done">
For more details:
https://cms.paypal.com/cms_content/GB/en_GB/files/developer/PP_WebsitePaymentsStandard_IntegrationGuide.pdf

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