Search User Profiles without MySites

We upgraded from 2007 to 2010 last year. In 2010 we did not set up a MySite web app or top level site collection. We did set up the User Profile Service and the profiles are syncing data from AD correctly. I have two issues that I would like help resolving.
First, I would like to set up a search where we can search for people and get their profile information. I want to use this like a company directory. I don't want to use the site collection user list, I want the profile information instead because the site
collection user list does not contain all of our users. If I don't have MySite, what do I set the crawl to? Where are the profiles stored?
Second, in a site collection, when we click on the name of the user under "created by" or "modified by", we get a page not found. I'm not sure if that is supposed to link to the profile (which I think is person.aspx) or the site
collection user (userdisp.aspx).
Are both of these issues caused by not having a MySite application set up? Is there anyway to have and use profiles without having them in the MySite app and site collection? I would like users to be able to modify their profile and we'd like
to search them. I'd also like those links under created/modified by to link to something. I've read about 50 articles and books and can't find a definitive answer on needing/not needing MySite. Any help is much appreciated.
Milissa Hartwell

I was able to resolve my crawl issue. I set up a separate content type (not sure if a separate one was needed, but that's how I did it). The crawl was set for sps3://[myservername]. Once the crawl was complete, I was able to search for people in my
search center.
My userdisp and person.aspx are still not coming up. When I click on a user in the site collection, I'm expecting to see their info in the userdisp.aspx page but I still get a page not found. And after I search for people, if I hover over
their name, the URL shows
http://[myserver]/my/person.aspx?accountname=[accountname] but I also get a page not found.
Does anyone know how to get userdisp and/or person.aspx to render? I looked in my 14 hive on the server and the userdisp.aspx page does exist so I'm not sure why it won't come up at least.
Also still wondering if users need a mySite to edit their Profile.
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