Hiding products for catagories but still accessible through
 

I have a modded search on my site and I dont want people to see the thousands of products without doing the search. Any ideas.

Make the products hidden.

or just hide the category links

Cool, I thought that if I "disabled" a catagory, then it would not show up anywhere...because, well, it was disabled.

Thanks guys..

Not disabled, hidden. Products have that option by default, but for categories you will need to insall this mod:

http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=11326