Thanks for the suggestions. I ended up upgrading LW versions, upgrading my firewall SW (which also needed to be done), rebooting, etc. I was having some other system issues as well so I also ran a full virus scan and removed a few suspect programs. Bottom line, not sure what the issue was but I'm searching OK again. I also setup some keyword filters as you suggested that are making search results a whole lot more concentrated on what I want.

THANKS for your help!