>I've had this happen in a number of searches lately, but just thought it was due to my ignorance of the search criteria. I'll put in a specific phrase that I know exists and it will return no results (or, actually all of the files). I would prefer checkboxes and one textbox so I can tell it in what areas to search (using an "OR" boolean logic). That way if I were to select "All" it would find any file where the phrase occured anywhere in the information. The way it is now it seems that I need to know where the phrase exists in order to find it.

As it is widely use on the entire site, the default operator =, on non memo fields, is to search on every field that starts with the search string. When someone want to start within the string, the $ operator could be used.