raymex

I had the same problem, and I wonder why the default widgets are not using searchform.php, instead they are generating the same code again..

Well I opened widgets.php and changed the wp_widget_search function as follows:

<?php
		echo $before_widget;
		if  ( file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php')  {
			include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php');
		} else {
	?>
			<form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>">
			<div>
			<input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="15" /><br />
			<input type="submit" value="<?php echo attribute_escape(__('Search')); ?>" />
			</div>
			</form>
	<?php
		}
	echo $after_widget; ?>

And everything works fine now. Ofcourse next update to WP will most likely write over this modification so I have to change this portion everytime I update WP. 🙁