Permanently changing parameters on the search box?

I just switched over to Leopard from Tiger at work.
Whenever I do searches for files in the finder my three parameters at the top are "Name", "Kind" and "Last Opened". I'm trying to find a way to change the "Last Opened" to "Last Modified" as it was on Tiger, which was much handier for the work I do.
Is there a way to do this?
I would also like to have the search include the Trash, but have been unable to figure out how on my new system.
Any help would be appreciated.

kev_taoboy wrote:
I just switched over to Leopard from Tiger at work.
Whenever I do searches for files in the finder my three parameters at the top are "Name", "Kind" and "Last Opened". I'm trying to find a way to change the "Last Opened" to "Last Modified" as it was on Tiger, which was much handier for the work I do.
Is there a way to do this?
no. you can add any items you want to that pulldown menu though. in that pull-down menu click on "other". in the resulting popup check the boxes next to any items you want to appear in that pull-down menu.
I would also like to have the search include the Trash, but have been unable to figure out how on my new system.
that's not possible either. spotlight doesn't search trash.
Any help would be appreciated.

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