Glenn,
Thanks for the point in the right direction. Tried this in a template with below code and isn't working. Keep getting 'vBulletin_Autocomplete is undefined' in console. Tried adding sb_search.js, and search-rollup-525. But nothing coming up still. Did a search for "function vBulletin_Autocomplete" and came up empty. Checked the Api for it as well and came up with nothing. I gotta be missing something.
There is the <form> stuff too but I only posted what was relevant.
Code:
{vb:js js/autocomplete.js}
<input type='text' name='friend_name' id='friend_name' class='searchFields_author textbox'>
<script>
var userAutocomplete = new vBulletin_Autocomplete($('.friend_name'), {
apiClass: "user"
});
</script>