Managed Standby Database Again

I'm setting up Managed standby database between 2 win 2k Version 8.1.7 servers. it all seems to be working well, however I was under the impression that the primary server would write a copy of the redo logs into the destination pointed to by the log_archive_dest_2. I never see the logs in the standby directory though the logs are applied and changes are seen if I stop recovery and bring up the standby DB in read only mode. The service "test2" is valid.

The other question would be, how do I bring the database from "open read only" back to "recover standby database" without having to shutdown the DB? If I try "alter database close" it says I can't do that while I am connected.

Thanks
Barry

Primary init.ora

 log_archive_start = true
 log_archive_format = %%ORACLE_SID%%%S.001
 log_archive_dest_1 = "LOCATION=D:\oracle\oradata\test1\archive"
 log_archive_dest_2 = "SERVICE=test2 OPTIONAL REOPEN=60"

Standby init.ora
log_archive_dest_1 = "location=C:\oracle\oradata\test1\archive" log_archive_format = TEST1%S.001

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