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Originally Posted by ProSportsForums

Did you try rebuilding the search index?

Yes, I forgot to add that part. But only on the test site (which should be sufficient). And it made no difference.

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Update:
Okay, now this is a bit bizarre... I decided to try a search index rebuild on the public forum and now my test strings return their respective forums correctly. I'm wondering two things now: 1) Why didn't the search index rebuild session resolve the issue on the test forum? And 2) will a search index rebuild session be required each time I move posts from one thread to another existing thread?

EDIT:
I'm going to test this and report back.

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Final Result
Using different thread titles and different searchable test strings, I've duplicated the new thread creation process on the public forum in order to determine whether, after rebuilding the search index, subsequently moved posts would be searchable. The result is that they are not.

The implication from this result is that each time posts from one thread are migrated to another thread they will remain unsearchable unless and until the search index is once again rebuilt. If this condition is consistently repeatable across vB 4 installations, I certainly consider it to be a bug. I don't think it seems reasonable to be required to rebuild a vB site's entire search index each time posts are moved from one thread to another to make those posts searchable.

If in doubt, please test this on your own vB installation.