Try Un-Nesting the joins:

SELECT Employee.employeeid, Employee.lastname, Employee.firstname, ;
   Log.employeeid, Log.firmid, Log.codeid, Log.logdate, Log.time, Log.rate, ;
   Code.codeid, Code.codenum, Code.codetype, Code.codedesc ;
 FROM timepro!employee ;
     INNER JOIN timepro!log ;
        ON Employee.employeeid = Log.employeeid ;
    INNER JOIN timepro!code ;
       ON  Log.codeid = Code.codeid ;
 ORDER BY Log.firmid, Employee.lastname, Employee.firstname, ;
  Code.codenum, Code.codetype

>Also... when you use a view on a REPORT and in the report you set up some data grouping, does that override the ORDER BY of the view?

No.