Bridge Searches and Keyword suggestions

In Bridge CS3, changing the search target, eg from filename to keyword, dumps any search items already entered and replaces it with 'Enter Text'. This is seriously irritating if you have already entered the search string and have the wrong field selected.
Please leave the search text alone when changing field!
And please allow keyboard shortcuts for selecting search field criteria - eg for filename or keyword searches.
And please explain which search goes with which history state - a tooltip hint would be enough. A list full of 'search results' doesn't help much.
And please can list of keywords etc be sensitive to letter keys to jump and cycle through keywords starting with that letter. Working with very long keyword lists can be very tedious - especially when new keywords are always created at the top of the list even when the original insertion point was at the target position.

My bridge doesn't let me work hierarchly. There is not the green arrow at the bottom to do so, nor a box to run "search"
Does anybody know how to solve this?
Thank you

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