Search Results – Old posts showing first

had it for years .. it’s been tweaked and customized a ton .. in various ways on various sites .. this is the search.php file though …

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">

	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		<h2 class="pagetitle">Search Results</h2>

		<div class="navigation">
			<p><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Previous') ?> &nbsp; <?php previous_posts_link('Next &raquo;') ?></p>
		</div>

		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

			<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<ul class="date">
			<li class="day"><?php the_time('d') ?></li>
			<li class="month"><?php the_time('M') ?></li>
			</ul>
			<ul class="title">
			<li class="topic"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
			<li class="postmeta"><?php the_time('g:i a'); ?>  | <class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> <?php edit_post_link('| Edit'); ?></li>
			</ul>

			<div class="clear"></div>

			<div class="entry">
				<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>'); ?>

				<?php link_pages('<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', '</p>', 'number'); ?>

			</div>
		</div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

		<div class="navigation">
			<p><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Previous') ?> &nbsp; <?php previous_posts_link('Next &raquo;') ?></p>
		</div>

	<?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="center">No posts found. Try a different search?</h2>
		<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

	</div>

<?php include("sidebar3.php");  ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Disabling plug-ins .. no difference.

Switch themes … no difference.

Thanks though.