Search not Working

Hello,

I have installed Drupal 5.1 using Fantastico on a BlueHost server. I have read many posts on Search problems and have not found a solution to this problem.

My site is indexed, cron is working, search module is enabled, permissions set, etc...

When I search for, lets say, the word 'vendors' on my site I am directed back to my home page with no search results displayed. It should be going to http://www.example.com/search/node/vendors.

If I manually enter in this url I get the two pages that contain this search phrase listed correctly. If I select one of those pages it directs me back to my home page http://www.example.com even though the url shows, during hover over, that the pages is http://example.com/vendors-page.htm (without the www)

I have edited .htaccess to only use www in the url.

Any idea why this is happening?

Thanks in advance!