Been trying to search for something but keep hitting the 20 second search flood control, yet it's been about 3 minutes since my last actual search. It seems as if everytime you try a search and hit the 20 second limit, the board resets the clock to 0.

I did some searched and I had no probs with them, so I probably don't understand your problem. Can you be more specific.

I was doing the searches from the little 'Enter words to search...' box, and repeated searches from there keep resetting the 20 second timer.

Doing searches from the full Search page (took me a while to find the page) don't seem to hit any flood control at all - not even the 20 second one.