Hi Kevin
>When I issue a CLEAR WINDOWS, it clears all of my forms, but keeps the currently active one in memory, and I cannot clear it from memory at all.

i have test this :-
aaa = createobject("Form")
aaa.show()
clear windows
aaa.show() &&& error message aaa is not an object

when i issued
? aaa &&& screen display .Null.
release aaa &&& variable aaa not found