When someone opens the database under the guest account, I want it to open to a default page, with no records displayed, and the "home" layout. At the moment when anyone opens the database it opens at the last record/layout the last user was looking at. Anyone know a solution to this?

With the desired FileMaker file open, go to the File menu and select File Options...

In the Open/Close tab, select the desired layout in the When opening this file section.

Alternately, you could create a script that navigates to the layout you want, and performs any other tasks you wish at start-up, and set that script to run by selecting it through the same dialogue box mentioned above.

What if the user is connecting via the Instant Web Publishing portion? How do you set the default page that way and more importantly, hide the status bar?

You need to do a little scripting.

Apart from the default layout you can also specify a start up script - then you can do pretty much anything.

See the Get(ApplicationVersion) function to determine the client application.

This is great. Thanks so much for your help!