OK, now I'm a little nervous - I was sure that this was the usual "D'Oh! How did I miss something so simple!" problem that would be easily remedied by the collective experience on this forum.
The site search is acting like a bad site page link, dumping users back to the main page of the site. Does this mean I am missing files in the installation? Our consultant had a heck of a time installing the 4.7 upgrade - might he have unknowingly missed some files? This is what shows up in the status window when the cursor is on the search button - _doPostBack('dnn$dnnSEARCH$cmdsearch',") - might this script be generating a bad URL? I'm not very hip on programming, but I'm scratchin' around trying to figure this out before my users revolt!
Thanks for any help in this matter.