Since search-404 has blocks turned off by design as a performance consideration, I suggest allowing only cached blocks to be displayed as a compromise. This will provide a way to maintain theme stability without introducing a performance overhead. I have explained my suggestion in answer to a user question at: http://drupal.org/node/129762#comment-982245

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Status: Closed (works as designed) » Closed (fixed)

This has been fixed in the latest commit