have you specified a log directory in the ini file?
If not could you try that and let us know what happened:
[JadeLog]
LogDirectory=C:\path\to\log\folder\
Form.instances are persistent instances, yours is transient nor are persistent instances aloud of forms. What you could do is have a reference property on Form1 that when you trigger click event it assigns the newly created form to the reference so when you click again, check if it is not null, you ...