another one that will be wildly ignored...

wouldnt it make sense for the basic search to be limited to the forum that you're currently browsing? i.e. if you're browsing the vb.net section and you click on search, you're probabaly looking for a vb.net post, so it would only search the vb.net section?
I know its available in the advacned search, but I think it makes more sense to search the current forum by default