TOC problem; lost Search and Keyword boxes

Question

I inherited a Robohelp X5 project that was originally started
by a person very familiar with these types of programs, then
ultimately messed up by someone who knew nothing about them or the
content. I spent most of my time re-writing and updating the
content using X5, then upgraded to 7 this morning. I have learned
quite a bit about the program, not obviously not enough. I'm sure
these are things I've messed up, because they worked before; but I
don't know what I did or how to fix it...
First, the TOC is built, with books and pages are in the
order I want. The books are linked to a page - presumably, so that
when a user clicks on the book, it defaults a particular page, and
from there they can move to other pages in the section. However,
when I view the results, you have to click on the book, then click
on the individual page to get the page to open.
Next, I have 'lost' the Search boxes for the Index and
Keyword searches. When I look at the skin, they appear there, but
when I view the project, they aren't - the index and keyword lists
appear instead of the boxes.
If anyone can give me some direction on what I need to do,
I'd really appreciate it.

Answer 1

Thanks so much for trying to help me - I apologize in advance
for being suce a novice, and I promise I'll try to learn more about
this program and not bother you guys so much in the future. Right
now I'm just in a bind with needing to get the file posted.
I right-clicked on each of the books, went to Properties, and
confirmed that the Book with Link box is checked, near the bottom
of the window, in the Link to: box is the page that I want the book
to open with. However, when I view the project, that isn't what
happens. For example: I have a Book named Getting Started, under it
are several pages related to initial set up of the software, one of
which is named Getting Started. The Book is linked to the page; but
when I open the project in View, I click on Getting Started and it
expands to show the pages; I have to actually click on the Getting
Started page to open it. Before, whenever I clicked on the Getting
Started Book, the Getting Started Page opened to reveal the
contents of the Book. On the Book Properties window, there isn't
anything in the Available Variables box, and if I go to the
Advanced tab, the Frame reads Default (none) - should the Book or
the Page be designated as a Parent Frame?
With regard to losing the Search and Keywords boxes - I have
an Index full of words; went through yesterday and cleaned it all
up, then generated Webhelp. When I open it to View, the project
opens to the TOC, which is good, but the Search button that usually
appears at the top of the Help screen is not there. Then, when I
click on either the Index or Search tabs, what I see is the
alphabet where the Search box should be, with a list of all of the
index words below. If I open the Skin that was used on the project
and View it, the Search boxes appear there.
I looked at the website that Peter directed me to, but I
don't really see anything there that addresses either of these
issues. Under the Tools menu I did locate an Update DHTML Effects
in Topic; but when I click on it, it returns a message that tells
me that after the conversion the topics cannot be opened by
previous versions of RoboHelp HTML. I've answered No to convert all
of the topics, because I'm not sure that's what I should do.