Why is pg_restore returning successfully but not actually restoring my database?

I have a Postgres 8.4 database on a linux server that I have dumped using the following command:

pg_dump --format=c --exclude-table=log --file=/path/to/output my_db

I then ftp the created file to my local Windows 7 machine and attempt to restore the file to my local Postgres 8.4 instance using the following command:

pg_restore --create --exit-on-error --verbose c:\path\to\file

The restore command generates plenty of output claiming it created my database, connected to it, and then created all the other tables as expected. However, when I view the databases on my local machine through pgAdmin the restored database doesn't exist at all.

In an attempt to troubleshoot I tried the following command:

pg_restore --create --exit-on-error --verbose --host=blahblah --username=no_one c:\path\to\file

When I run this command even though the host and username given are complete nonsense I still get the exact same output from the command without any errors.

Has anyone run into this before or know what could by causing this?