Weirdness in pager

Hi,

Thank you for your answer!
I hope I'll manage to make your life as easy as possible on this one...
Just make a module called "custom". this is "custom.module":

BTW, if I *did* happen to do things right (you never know), this is a working snipset to create a multipage filtered form...

function custom_menu() {

  $items['custom_search'] = array(
      'title' => t('Easy search'),
      'page callback' => 'custom_search',
      'access arguments' => array('access content'),
      'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
    );

  return $items;
}

function custom_search(){

  // NOTE 3: This is ALSO ugly. This is because I don't actually know
  // where the 'name' variable is coming from. It could be GET (from the
  // pager) or POST (from the form)

  // Sets 'name'
  if($_POST['name'] ){
    $name=$_POST['name'];
  } else {
    $name=$_GET['name'];
  }

  $page .= drupal_get_form('custom_search_form');

 $result = pager_query("SELECT * FROM {variable} WHERE name like '%%%s%%'", 10, 0,NULL, $name);
  #drupal_set_message("Filtered by name: $name");
  if($result){
    while ($item = db_fetch_object($result)) {
    $page .= "<li>$item->name  -- $item->value</li>";
    }

    // NOTE 2: UGLY BIT. Without this, this module *works*. However,
    // the pager will have the whole form's worth of crap in the
    // query string...
    $old_REQUEST=$_REQUEST;
    unset($_REQUEST['form_build_id']);
    unset($_REQUEST['form_id']);
    unset($_REQUEST['form_token']);
    unset($_REQUEST['op']);
    $page .= theme('pager', NULL, 10,0);

   $_REQUEST=$old_REQUEST;

  }
  return $page;

}

function custom_search_form(){

  #drupal_set_message("Test: ".$_GET['name'].", ".$_POST['name']);

  // NOTE 4: Another source of ugliness. If the page is rendered from the
  // pager, I want the fields to be set...
  if($_GET['name']){
    $default['name']=$_GET['name'];
  }

 $form['name'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textfield',
    '#size' => 35,
   '#default_value' => $default['name'],
    '#maxlength' => 128,
    '#title' => t('The text on the user\'s tab.'),
    );

  $form['submit'] = array(
    '#type' => 'button',
    '#value' => t('Search'),
  );

  // NOTE 1
  // This needs to stay here so that if you go to page 2, for example,
  // and then start a new search from the form, you don't keep all of
  // the rubbish in the query string
  $form['#action'] = url('custom_search');

  return $form;
}