search templates that 'remember'
The standard MT templates include a search form on the main index of the blog that automatically limits the search to that blog (otherwise, mt-search.cgi will search all blogs that you haven't excluded in mt.cfg). But when the person does a new search from that page, mt-search.cgi doesn't "remember" the limitation to the one blog, so it searches all blogs.
To get around this problem, use the MTCgi plugin to grab the search parameters that were passed in the URL and use them again.
This is explained further at General Purpose Search Template. Note that the sample code given on this page is incorrect. When listing the parameters that you want to include it should say include="IncludeBlogs" not name="IncludeBlogs".
Inshallah, I'll explain a bit more about my search templates later.
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