I can’t replicate the problem in a new template with EE 2.1.4 beta. I’m assuming you have more in your template than the code you listed.
Not much more. It’s basic search results:
{embed="{mysite-search}/head"}
<title>Search Results</title>
</head>
<body id="results">
{embed="{mysite-template-group}/logo-leaderboard"}
<div id="centerframe">
<div class="centerframe_bg">
<div id="content">
<div class='header'></div>
<table class='breadcrumb' border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='99%'>
<tr>
<td width="30%"><span class="defaultBold"> <a href="http://{homepage}" rel="nofollow" title="Back to the Home Page" class="TipTipClass">{site_name}</a> › <a href="http://{path=search/index}" rel="nofollow" title="Back to the Search Page" class="TipTipClass">Power Search</a> › {lang:search_results}</span></td>
<td width="50%" align="left"><span class="defaultBold">{lang:keywords}: <em>{exp:search:keywords}</em></span></td>
<td width="20%" align="right"><span class="defaultBold">{lang:total_search_results} {exp:search:total_results}</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<div class='outerBorder'>
<div class='tablePad'>
<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="resultHead">{lang:title}</td>
<td class="resultHead">{lang:excerpt}</td>
<td class="resultHead">{lang:author}</td>
<td class="resultHead">{lang:date}</td>
</tr>
{exp:search:search_results switch="resultRowOne|resultRowTwo"}
<tr>
<td class="{switch}" width="26%" valign="top"><strong><a href="http://{auto_path}" rel="nofollow" title="Link to: {title} - {blurb}" class="TipTipClass">{title}</a></strong></td>
<td class="{switch}" width="50%" valign="top">{excerpt}</td>
<td class="{switch}" width="12%" valign="top">{author}</td>
<td class="{switch}" width="12%" valign="top">{entry_date format="%M %j, %Y"}</td>
</tr>
{/exp:search:search_results}
</table>
{if paginate}
<div class="paginate">
{page_count} {paginate}
</div>
{/if}
</div>
{embed="{mysite-template-group}/search_block_results"}
</div>
</div>
</div><!--END centerframe bg-->
</div><!--END centerframe-->
{embed="{mysite-template-group}/copyright"}
</body>
</html>
Can you reduce the template’s complexity to troubleshoot?
Not without a little surgery. The page functions properly in the latest 2.1.3 (which seemed to have fixed a search results bug in previous versions).
I’ll give it a try in 2.1.4 when it’s out of beta.