Thanks for the reply. The plugin installed and activated just fine but a search returns nothing found unless the search criteria in a post. Basically, the blog works the same as before (searches posts but not pages). Since my e-mail did not make it to you (probably got caught in spam filter), I will try to paste in the code from my search.php file here (see below). Thank you for your help. This plugin could be very useful to me if I can make it work. PS. I tried a different theme with the same results.
<?php
// search.php
// Tiny theme for WordPress
// Copyright (C) 2006 Ben de Groot
// You can redistribute this theme and/or modify it under the terms of
// the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
// either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
get_header();
?>
<h2><?php _e('Search Results','bnTiny'); ?></h2>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<h3 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php _e('Permanent Link','bnTiny'); ?>: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php
the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<p class="posted">Filed Under: <?php the_category(', '); ?>
<?php edit_post_link($link = __('Edit'), $before = ' | ', $after = ''); ?></p>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<p class="more"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink"><?php _e('Read','bnTiny'); ?> ‘<?php the_title(); ?>’</a></p>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<p class="nav"><span class="prev"><?php posts_nav_link( '', '', __('« Previous Entries','bnTiny') ) ?></span>
<span class="next"><?php posts_nav_link( '', __('Next Entries »','bnTiny'), '' ) ?></span></p>
<?php else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, nothing found.','bnTiny'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>