I posted about this in the other thread and also sent a PM to the person who fixed it but have not yet received a reply. Probably doesn't check forums often and/or doesn't have his/her profile set to notify him/her of replies to threads.

Another member was kind enough to share the 2.4 search.php and search.tpl after seeing my post, but I am missing a key part...where the poster said s/he replaced a piece of code somewhere. Didn't say what code and where it goes...that's the part we need.

I tried the search.php and search.tpl and renamed the search_box.tpl but it crashed the script unless I did something wrong and maybe shouldn't have renamed search_box.tpl....I'll try it again.

FYI: The original post I made about moving the search includes the search_box.tpl code from 2.4