One of our clients requested our assistance after MOSS a infrastructure update failed. As a result, our client’s intranet site collection had now completely lost both its search box and the Search Center site was now hidden. Although it was possible to navigate to the Search Center site through the “View All Site Content” link, an error occurred when displaying search results. Of course, the error was a standard SharePoint error message that didn’t explain what was really happening. In addition, the Farm’s Search Settings page in the Central Administration SSP also threw an “Unexpected Error”.
After changing the appropriate web.config...