Ok, I've been hacking at my page for the last hour, and got the search working. At the bottom of the news, you can search for one word queries in my news. If you enter a blank query, that will reset the news, and it will display everything like normal. You can also choose how many news items (searching or just displaying by default) you want to be displayed. Now, for your convienence, that value is now stored in a cookie, so you don't have to enter it again!
In other news, I just found out I have a lot of stuff to do this weekend, including a bloody lab report! Blech...