welcome, westvatexan.
like brent said, no need for the <title></title> tags. the only thing <title></title> affects is text in top edge of browser:
and, ebay sticks their own <title></title> tags on all ebay pages, so anything you try to put in wont be recognized (plus anything you try to put in ends up in the <body> section of the html)
the [title] tag (which can be anywhere in your template or description), when seen by auctiva, will be replaced with your auction title.