[Logician]

What about editing the search template and making "Show results as posts" option enabled by default?

Edit template "searchintro", find:

PHP Code:

<input type="radio" value="1" name="showposts"> Show results as  posts&nbsp;<br>
        <input type="radio" value="" name="showposts" checked> Show results as threads&nbsp; 


Replace it as:

PHP Code:

<input type="radio" value="1" name="showposts" checked> Show results as  posts&nbsp;<br>
        <input type="radio" value="" name="showposts"> Show results as threads&nbsp; 


BTW. If you are interested in Download Thread hack, I would be very interested to learn if the hack works ok with such a long thread..