Watching this code in the debugger reveals that even when seek evaluates to false, the else clause in not executed. Am I forgetting something? I have had this problem before and band-ais fixed it with separate 'if' statements.

if seek(my_name) = .T. then
if passwords.password = my_password then
messagebox(greeting, 0,"Log")
do login
thisform.release
endif
else messagebox("Invalid Login Attempt", 0, "Invalid")
endif