Regarding the "Highlight Text" feature

Hello all!
For the last couple weeks, I have been trying to figure out how to search my OCR enabled pdfs for certain key words and then highlight each instance, and, either because I missed it or because I was using an out of date version of Reader, I wasn't able to do this using Adobe Reader.
Today I spent some time looking again and found the comments tool bar and the highlight text feature, but because of an asterisk next to them I couldn't bring them up, regardless of what kind of pdf it was. I even tried making new pdfs with lower security settings to see if that did it but to no avail.
However, today while Reader did not alert me to anything when I first opened it this afternoon, after multiple openings and closings as well as it being open for extended periods of time, it eventually informed me an update was available. I updated to XI just now, and to my SHEER JOY the highlight text feature is not only available but on my toolbar by default.
First of all, to any Adobe staff who reads this - THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS FEATURE AVAILABLE BY DEFAULT. I've needed this for an important project at work for a while now.
Second, after receiving this new update I went on these forums, and it seems that this feature and this update have both been available for a while now, which is giving me a lot of questions:
1.) When was the reader XI update pushed out to users (in other words, when should I have been notified that an update was available)?
2.) Is the highlight text feature being available by default (and without asterisks or me giving myself migranes trying to change security settings) new with XI, or was it available in previous versions by default as well?
3.) Why was this feature previously unavailable by default and guarded by security permissions etc.?
4.) Why did this feature's availability change - what changed Adobe's minds?
These are mostly for curiosity, but also because I've spent the last two weeks recovering from a corrupt user profile on my laptop, and since I can't remember what version I was using before I updated to XI, so I'm also curious if I've been using an outdated version for a while now.
Anyway, any insight into my questions would be appreciated, but either way THANKS AGAIN!!!!!!

I didn't make myself clear I'm sorry. I don't want to highlight text when searching, I want to highlight text like you do in a textbook when you are studying, using a highlighter.
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