if you have windows XP to get the search working try running these commands:
regsvr32 wshom.ocx
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 urlmon.dll
and after you run these commands restart the computer
and see if it helped
Edit: i'm not sure this will help you though
hopefully it will.
Edit 2: here is a site with some info that might help you
http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread29555-1.html