Thanks for the honest assessment Mikko.
I will search and explore other options. If you have any developer insight for possible alternatives for this type of configuration, I’d love to hear them (my email is info@ site above), but in either case, I really appreciate your time investigating this.
And in case it’s helpful, here is my suffusion-query-posts.php code, which is the theme’s default code for the search widget:
http://pastebin.com/p6MKw7EL
