TOC problem; lost Search and Keyword boxes

Thanks so much for trying to help me - I apologize in advance for being suce a novice, and I promise I'll try to learn more about this program and not bother you guys so much in the future. Right now I'm just in a bind with needing to get the file posted.
I right-clicked on each of the books, went to Properties, and confirmed that the Book with Link box is checked, near the bottom of the window, in the Link to: box is the page that I want the book to open with. However, when I view the project, that isn't what happens. For example: I have a Book named Getting Started, under it are several pages related to initial set up of the software, one of which is named Getting Started. The Book is linked to the page; but when I open the project in View, I click on Getting Started and it expands to show the pages; I have to actually click on the Getting Started page to open it. Before, whenever I clicked on the Getting Started Book, the Getting Started Page opened to reveal the contents of the Book. On the Book Properties window, there isn't anything in the Available Variables box, and if I go to the Advanced tab, the Frame reads Default (none) - should the Book or the Page be designated as a Parent Frame?
With regard to losing the Search and Keywords boxes - I have an Index full of words; went through yesterday and cleaned it all up, then generated Webhelp. When I open it to View, the project opens to the TOC, which is good, but the Search button that usually appears at the top of the Help screen is not there. Then, when I click on either the Index or Search tabs, what I see is the alphabet where the Search box should be, with a list of all of the index words below. If I open the Skin that was used on the project and View it, the Search boxes appear there.
I looked at the website that Peter directed me to, but I don't really see anything there that addresses either of these issues. Under the Tools menu I did locate an Update DHTML Effects in Topic; but when I click on it, it returns a message that tells me that after the conversion the topics cannot be opened by previous versions of RoboHelp HTML. I've answered No to convert all of the topics, because I'm not sure that's what I should do.

Oh, thank you so much - that made perfect sense, and it worked. Everything seems to be good - except I still don't have the Search box at the top of the window, but I can live with that until I figure out how to fix that. The search boxes are there for Index and Search, and the problem with the TOC cleared up with it!

Do you have any suggestions about a book or a course I could take to learn more about the technical aspects of the program?