Thank you much appreciated x if your female lol .
In reply to your first question it was set and is still as its always been , the original theme allowed for a grid system front page layout now it has changed to the same as the demo and the background was black , you can view it here http://chrisspivey.org/ and see the search is on the menu bar , thanks for your reply , if you think its a plugin let me know as i only have 14 active as most are just resource hogs .
Thank you for your reply design http://themify.me/themes/itheme2 shows the search in the menu bar as for the first part of your reply i will check in a bit scanning with wordfence , thanks for your help .