Thanks for the update.

I added the above lines of code to my local version.

The previous error is gone now but I am seeing some odd behavior.

In the case where the recipient email address is for a registered user I get two gift certificate records created one for a $0 dollar amount and one for the amount of the product. The gift certificate does appear to work in terms of reducing order total and the value is deducted from the certificate.

In the case where recipient email address is NOT for a registered user then I get two duplicate gift certificate records created for the amount of the product. BUT no email is sent to the user's email address that was given.

Thoughts?