Thanks for that helpful clarification.  I had high hopes, but still no change after clearing the bin.  Does DNN need to be restarted or anything like that to see the effects?  I did notice that even though my consultant who handles the DNN server said that the 4.8 update was complete, the current version is still showing 4.7 in the SuperUser acct.  So perhaps something is still hung up with the update. 

This search problem began with the update to 4.7

Thanks again everyone for all your help with this perplexing problem.

No news is not neccessarily good news - I can't seem to get the query to run.  I go to SQL under the host menu, browse to website.mdf, which is what I assume is the site DB based on the connection string in my web config file. I put EXEC [GetModuleByDefinition] 0, 'Search Results' into the entry box and click "Execute".  Nothing happens.  I then check run as script and click Execute again, it tells me "The Query completed successfully!"  Not the feedback I'm looking for.  As is apparent, I am outside of my knowledge box here.