drupalace,

1)thanks foor the article and quick fix to the search problem - it worked for me...don't really understand why but for now i am happy...thx again

2)as for the problem with inserting the code into a block i had many problems when inserting the code into an "Full HTML filter - line and paragraphs break automatically" - the format that was showing on the Adsense for Search was not outputting correctly when inserting it into a block or page

my workable solution: -hacked around and deleted some of the "linespacing" in code because although there are no linebreaks shown in the code in the input box- when copying and pasting the code - the line breaks are shown in the page source