[Plugin: Search Engine] Template bumping sidebar results desc

Loving this plugin!

I have a couple issues and I’m so not php savvy, so before I attempt to plunder my way though I’m hoping someone knows the answers to these issues:

1. The search results template is bumping my sidebar down. I’m pretty css fluent but I can’t find anything there so I figured the issue is probably in the template itself. Anyone tackle this already or know the answer?

2. I managed to limit the results desc to the main content based on another post here, but it always shows text from the html itself instead of just reader-friendly text. For example, if someone searches for ‘border’ every entry with ‘border’ in the html also shows as a result. Obviously that’s not what the reader would want (or even understand). Anyway to fix this issue?

3. Search results are also picking up everything in the nav menu which really dilutes it. I’m using the thesis theme to build this site… any ideas how to remove the nav menu contents from the results since they’re repeated on every page?

Thanks in advance… I appreciate any help!