I got the search function to work all by my little lonesome...now if I can just get the color scheme of it fixed....it could be worse I guess.
It's not quite what I wanted, wanted to be able to search all text in the BLOG, but it does work. Searching for any string of text seems to be connected to what has or has not been crawled by GOOGLE. If I search the word 'brain' for example, I get a search result of every instance of it whether it's a post like 'Fire Brain' or the word 'brain' like in the text of my post 'Fire Brain.' However, 'Sweet' brings up no matches and that is a brand new post.
Time to study more about GOOGLE. The add for the search function said 'Google Free Search -- get more traffic.' Now that would be nice.