Using the carrington theme and after switching to permalinks I noticed that the wordpress search doesnt seem to work. Not sure if this is by design or what. After a little bit of scrabbling around I decided to hack the scripts so I changed the search.php script which sits in themes/carrington-blog/forms. I commented out the permalinks section of the if like so
/* if (get_option('permalink_structure') != '') { $onsubmit = "location.href=this.action+ 'search/'+encodeURIComponent(this.s.value).replace(/%20/g, '+'); return false;"; } else { */ $onsubmit = ''; //}
so that it always does the non permalink bit whether or not it is selected. Seems to work still, all comments welcomed on this.