Forums search engines are not worth their weight in printed code.
Use Google to search the forums, and you get fair to good results.
That does of course require you to know how to use Google for specific searches.
To search these forums only, use the following in the Google search field:
site:panoguide.com
To search for a specific phrase you remember from a discussion you are trying to find, you would would use the quotation marks and add the following in the search field:
"The only folks that might" site:panoguide.com
Which brings you one exact match. Of course, with Google, using years, may bring up search results from today, even if you put 2006 into the search field, since it could find "2006" as the day some person in that thread did sign up.
But you can also exclude search results.
Here without excluding anything:
"automatic control point generation" site:panoguide.com
Here the same, but excluding "postit":
"automatic control point generation" -postit site:panoguide.com
... and so it goes.
Generally, if you use the quotation marks "" on both sides of words/phrases, those will HAVE to be in the result exactly as you put it.
Anyways... knowing those basics for google searches, searching will become a lot easier.
Searching specific file types can be done by adding
ext:pdf or ext:doc or ext:fla
... etc to the searches ... it will only look for files of those types.
And you can also use:
inurl:panorama
... to search only within pages that have the word "panorama" in the URL
There is a lot more that makes google searches useful... but start with this and go from there.
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