diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index 2c35392d58..9c7300c67f 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -5206,7 +5206,7 @@ David  26 Aug 2011
 	html/user/
 		forum_thread.php
 
-David  26 Aug 2011
+David  27 Aug 2011
     - web: add a magic header string that supposedly will make
         Recaptcha work on some IE variants.  WTF??
 
@@ -5216,3 +5216,14 @@ David  26 Aug 2011
         user/
             create_account_form.php
             create_profile.php
+
+David  28 Aug 2011
+    - web: fix to the above
+    - web: fix forum search
+
+    html/
+        inc/
+            util.inc
+        user/
+            forum_search.php
+            forum_search_action.php
diff --git a/html/inc/util.inc b/html/inc/util.inc
index 1c13cdba5f..35fb086856 100644
--- a/html/inc/util.inc
+++ b/html/inc/util.inc
@@ -148,15 +148,18 @@ function page_head(
 
     echo "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd\">";
     
+    echo "<html><head>\n";
+    if ($head_extra) {
+        echo "\n$head_extra\n";
+    }
     if (!$title_plain) {
-        echo "<html><head><title>".sanitize_tags($title)."</title>\n";
+        echo "<title>".sanitize_tags($title)."</title>\n";
     } else {
-        echo "<html><head><title>".sanitize_tags($title_plain)."</title>\n";
+        echo "<title>".sanitize_tags($title_plain)."</title>\n";
     }
     echo "<link rel=stylesheet type=\"text/css\" href=\"".URL_BASE."main.css\" media=\"all\" />
         <link rel=stylesheet type=\"text/css\" href=\"$stylesheet\">
         <link rel=alternate type=\"application/rss+xml\" title=\"$rssname\" href=\"$rsslink\">
-        $head_extra
         </head>
     ";
     if ($java_onload){
diff --git a/html/user/forum_search.php b/html/user/forum_search.php
index 78d12413f1..293e0a47ea 100644
--- a/html/user/forum_search.php
+++ b/html/user/forum_search.php
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ echo "<form action=\"forum_search_action.php\" method=\"post\">";
 row1(tra("Search query"));
 row2(tra("Search for keywords:")."<br />
     <span class=\"smalltext\">".tra("Posts that contain all the specified words will be displayed")."</span>",
-    "<input type=\"text\" style=\"width: 290px\" name=\search_keywords\" size=\"30\" /><br />
+    "<input type=\"text\" style=\"width: 290px\" name=\"search_keywords\" size=\"30\" /><br />
     <span class=\"smalltext\">".tra("For example: \"screensaver freeze\"")."</span>");
 row2(tra("Search for author ID:")."<br />
     <span class=\"smalltext\">".tra("Only posts by this author will be displayed")."</span>",
diff --git a/html/user/forum_search_action.php b/html/user/forum_search_action.php
index f8a3aac590..aa541b9289 100644
--- a/html/user/forum_search_action.php
+++ b/html/user/forum_search_action.php
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ function search_post_content(
 
     $search_string="%";
     foreach ($keyword_list as $key => $word){
-        $search_string.=BoincDb::escape_string($word)."%";
+        $search_string .= BoincDb::escape_string($word)."%";
     } 
     $optional_join = "";
     // if looking in a single forum, need to join w/ thread table
