I'm in the Software business. If there's one thing I've learned it's to never upgrade until absolutely necessary; the penalty for a botched install can just be too great. Hey, you may be able to add a box to that search page for Title searches. It means you'd have to add a hook to the Perl script for the new parameter, and a new query... Then people could search message titles by 'Paddle:' or 'Other:'.

There's a Perl debugger I once used that lets you step through each line of code as it executes. It's been a while but I could get the name if you're interested.