I have a Drupal 5 site with a custom login form, using function phptemplate_user_login and user_login.tpl.php. It works fine, but there are two issues. First is that if a user logins on the home page he ends up at site.com/front. This is technically correct as front is the front page. This is how drupal.org works--login on the home page and you end at up http://drupal.org/node . We would like to change this, however, to end up at site.com. I tried:

$form['#action'] = base_path();

in both the tpl file and the template.php file but it didn't help. This is not a major issue, but it would be nice.

The other one is quite perplexing and is serious. If a user attempts to login from /user and fails then the expected message shows up. If he does the same from the front page, then no message shows up. Both pages use page.tpl.php and the code there is trivial:

<?php print $messages ?>

yet it fails on the home page. Any ideas why that might be? This site was built by someone else, and I looked through the template.php file but I don't see anything which should be killing the message.

Thanks.