RH9 Webhelp Search function is not working properly

Peter,  Thanks for the quick response!  Unfortunately the Preferred Format option is greyed out and I cannot access it.  But, the DHTML > Pure HTML option "is" selected.  This is one reason why I don't understand why my Search is still coming out like the index alphabet clicks.  Do you have any other suggestions?

On another note.... one thing I forgot to mention is that my complanies projects require us to use the 508 compliant feature.  If I'm understanding what I am reading about this option, this may be my issue.  That the search feature will not build in the same fashion whent his is chosen.  However, it's interesting that when I unselect this option, and configure the rest of the settings to what I like, I'm not seeing any TOC, Index or Search capability workiing at all.  I get a two framed window with the three tabs for thiese but nothing appears below it (which is another problem for another day).  In any event, I think my resolution is that the search will not function with 508 compliance.

Petter,  Sorry I stepped on your reply to my last post.  Yes, I do have the 508 compliant option checked and I had completely forgotten about that part.  Anyway, I do have the DHTML selected and the checkbox for the search box field chosen.  However, I still never received the field box in my results.  And most of the search links that show come up with numbers all mixed in the words like "honor # 1 2 3 4 5" etc.  And the word honor can be clicked, as well as the # sign and the each of teh numbers following it.  THis is the part I don't understand.  Why are my search links showing with all these numbers and garbage data?

Rick,  Thanks for stepping in.    I assumed that was the reason why I was not receiving the search field, and that is fine for now.  We have discussed with our client the possibility of having two different help projects one for each, but that decision was kind of put on the back burner.

However, the other issue I am having is still there and I don't quite understand why.  Since I only have clickable A-Zs for the search, and it lists links much like the Index section, I'm still seeing lists of just numbers and characters (i.e., "# 1 2 3 4 5", or "%" or "& 1 2 3 4 5" sometimes all the way up to 18 or so).  And each of these characters or numbers are clickable links as well to either page that doesn't contain that number or to nothing.

Doing a bit more research, I have noticed that a lot of these links are being picked up by the PDF file we have as part of the project.  Our help project has a link to the documented version of the help in the form of a User Guide.pdf file.  So the search is listing items from that guide like the heading numbers 1.0, 1.0.1, etc.  Also each of these are clickable links that go nowhere.  But then there is still the numbers 1, 2, etc that go to pages that don't have this anywhere on the page.

Do you have any insight as to why these types of things are being listed under Search at all?  They make that selection look very messy and unorganized.  Not professional at all.  I have checked and tested the properties settings and can't seem to find what is causing this to happen.  Any idea would be most appreciated!!