2 problem with interface

As you can see at the following code, some things are hardcoded inside page-front.tpl.php and page.tpl.php. So you could remove text "Subscribe to:"

All this is happening beause there are essentially 2 regions inside header-top div ($page['header']) - $page['search_area']). So you could print your search form inside $page['search_area'] and delete text "Subscribe to:".

Finally, i attached a patch with the removing of this text to page and page-front.tpl.php

<!--header-top-->
<div id="header-top">
    <div id="header-top-inside" class="clearfix">
        <div id="header-top-inside-left">Subscribe to: <div id="header-top-inside-left-content"><?php print render($page['header']); ?> </div></div>
        <div id="header-top-inside-left-feed">
            <div id="topSocial">
                <ul>									
                    <li><a class="twitter" href="http://twitter.com/morethanthemes" title="Follow Us on Twitter!"></a></li>
                    <li><a class="facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/More-than-just-themes/194842423863081" title="Join Us on Facebook!"></a></li>
                    <li><a class="rss" title="RSS" href="#" title="Subcribe to Our RSS Feed"></a></li>
                </ul>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div id="header-top-inside-right"><?php print render($page['search_area']);?> </div>  
    </div>
</div>
<!--/header-top-->

committed to Head

http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=496882

ok verified, but you should see an issue http://drupal.org/node/1055302 caused from this fix.