I made an advanced search sidebar to put on my home page. It works pretty slick, I think ... just passes the information to the advanced search page and brings up the grid. At some point, I'd like to change the grid to show thumbnails or something, but that's for later.
If anyone wants to try it out, I made a lot of little changes so send me a PM with your e-mail and I'll send you the files. I edited the AdvancedSearchPage.ascx and ascx.cs. I also created my two files for the sidebar. So, you could just copy yours out, test the sidebar and then copy yours back in when you're done.
If anyone comes up with cleaner code or a better way, feel free to let me know.
Thanks!
Mike