After much playing around, it appears that the search text being saved is because of Firefox, not TiddlyWiki. I have been able to duplicate this behavior in other sites. I do not know why this has started up, but clearly something changed with Firefox, and the timing was merely so unfortunate as to have me believe it was an issue with TW.
Birthe, thank you for showing me how to properly create external links. c pa, I fear I have cost you some time, so let me apologize for that and thank you for your help. I was able to get this figured out because of your suggestions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/f8f3fe27-f892-4106-8a49-eb124655771d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
