I searched the board and didn't see this problem posted, so I wanted to bring it up here and see if this is in fact a problem:

I have tested out this problem with both my customized version mIRC and a brand new copy downloaded from this site and I seem to be getting the same problem.

Under the Options > IRC > Show In Active menu, I have Whoises set to Show in ACTIVE.
In my remotes, I have on 1:JOIN:#Test:whois $nick

The whois shows up, but only in my server window and not in my active channel window (#Test).