Totally agree with you, Jim.

Shawn, if you had already created indexes for the keys that are used at the Select you will have better task (although, VFP create them automatically, but you win if you had created them).
Try not to use SELECT * FROM ... (this is an advice from Microsoft).
Like Jim said, try to use the where condition for filtering the query, not to ensure relations between tables.

Cheers,

Ricardo