[shan]

Here you go Jeff.

This will add a menu type box with the search in it.

This is from v3.3.3 but should be ok in other versions but may need the styles changed around a little

create a new file search.tpl and add it to skin1 dir

{* $Id: shan_menu_search.tpl,v 1.13 2003/03/11 07:06:43 Shan Exp $ *}
<TABLE width="100%" border=0 cellPadding=5 cellSpacing=0>
  <TR> 
    <TD width="26" height=26 class=VertMenuTitle>[img]{$ImagesDir}/dingbats_help.gif[/img]</TD>
    <TD class=VertMenuTitle height=26 valign=center>{$lng.lbl_search}</TD>
  </TR>

</table>
<TABLE width="100%" border=0 cellPadding=5 cellSpacing=0>
   <form method="get" action="../customer/search.php" name=productsearchform><tr> 
    <td class=VertMenuItems><input type="text" name="substring" size="16" value="{$smarty.get.substring|escape}"> 
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class=VertMenuItems><a href="javascript:document.productsearchform.submit()">{include 
      file="buttons/search_head.tpl"}</a> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td class=VertMenuItems>{$lng.lbl_advanced_search}</td>
  </tr></form>
</table> 

Now in skin1/customer/home.tpl add the following bit of code where you want the new search file to appear

{ include file="search.tpl" }