One minor tweak with the code.
When added to my template, the search form appeared perfectly in every page. But when I would go to the real search page to do an advanced search, I noticed the small yellow error icon in the lower left of the IE window which means the page loaded...but with errors.
Even though there were errors on the page, it didn't stop the new search form from working properly. When I removed the new search from the template, there were no errors on the page. So the only thing I could think of was that the new search form we made and the advanced search form on that page must share the same form name attribute, "searchcpg"
So I simply changed the name of our new form to "searchpg1"
and that fixed the issue :-)
Change
<form method="post" action="http://birdmarks.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php" name="searchcpg">
TO
<form method="post" action="http://birdmarks.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php" name="searchcpg1">
IN THIS
<form method="post" action="http://birdmarks.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php" name="searchcpg">
<input type="hidden" name="album" value="search">
<input type="hidden" name="keywords" value="on">
<input type="hidden" name="type" value="AND">
<input type="input" name="search" maxlength="255" value="" class="textinput" size="20">
<input type="submit" value="Search Here" class="button">
</form>
So final version of the code is this:
<form method="post" action="http://birdmarks.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php" name="searchcpg1">
<input type="hidden" name="album" value="search">
<input type="hidden" name="keywords" value="on">
<input type="hidden" name="type" value="AND">
<input type="input" name="search" maxlength="255" value="" class="textinput" size="20">
<input type="submit" value="Search Here" class="button">
</form>
Again....Be sure to point the form action to the location of your "thumbnails.php" in YOUR coppermine root.
http://www.birdmarks.com/coppermineThanks again, Nibbler