aha - have now changed modules/autotheme/includes/postnuke/atcommands.php with a successful result.

I have managed a little investigation - it seems that the includes/commands.inc.php file has a list of what is going to be searched and looking at the webpage source it does not match the list on the search block so I guess it is not dynamic.

however, I have changed the content of the search to include the missing items from the search block but it makes no difference - now really confused.

Clearly in need of much help.

for some reason the at-xp theme does not pick up all the different searches (I have installed photoshare and v4bjournal) whilst the default search block does - any help much appreciated.