Dreamweaver Find RE

[CF Coder2]

I'm trying to use the Find and Replace feature of Dreamweaver using Regular Expressions.  Either I'm doing something wrong or DW is totally brain dead when it comes to trying to use RE for this purpose.  If this is the wrong forum, politely tell me where to go.

I'm trying to find take a list of words (1-3) and place a repeated string before it and one after it and one in between a second instance...

So I Find:  (^.*$)

and try to Replace with:  <option value="$1">$1</option>

I can't get past the Find not working.  I can't get DW to find ^.* or .*$, or any string with $ in it.  Yet RE $ is end of line symbol.

What am I doing wrong?  (And yes I have the Use Regular Expressions checkbox checked in the Find/Replace dialog box.
I'm using DW MX 2004

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