Search Results – don’t appear to reference search.php

Hello, searching my blog results in full posts. I would like to return only post titles and excerpts for easier navigation. I cannot figure out how search is working within the theme. Here’s what I have if anyone can help:

1) Theme – Minimalist Fever 10

2) Search Structure:
a. There is a search.php file but no searchform.php. Search.php is not being referenced because the page name “Search Results” does not appear over the results (just my blog title), and when I intentionally do a no results search, it does not show edits to the no results message or produce the search box that is coded in search.php.

b. I am using the default search box in the sidebar

c. I tried adding searchform.php from classic, but it still does not reference that file. When I modified search.php to reference “searchform.php” rather than “index.php,” I stopped getting results at all (no results found).

3) Search files:

Sidebar search box:

• <h2>Search</h2>

• <form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php echo get_settings(‘siteurl’); ?>/index.php”>
  <p><input type=”text” name=”s” size=”30″ /></p></form>

Search.php:
<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<div id=”content”>

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

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

<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”><?php next_posts_link(‘« Previous Entries’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php previous_posts_link(‘Next Entries »’) ?></div>
</div>

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

<div class=”post”>
<h3 id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

<p class=”postmetadata”><?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?> | <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?> | <?php edit_post_link(‘Edit’, ”, ‘ | ‘); ?> <?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’); ?></p>
</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”><?php next_posts_link(‘« Previous Entries’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php previous_posts_link(‘Next Entries »’) ?></div>
</div>

<?php else : ?>

<h2>No posts found. Try a different search?</h2>
<form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php echo get_settings(‘siteurl’); ?>/index.php”>
<p>Search:  <input type=”text” name=”s” size=”15″ /></p></form>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

I cannot figure out the search structure to fix it. If anyone can see the problem, or knows of the file I should be posting to clear this up, I would really appreciate the guidance. Thanks