Getting Red X Item Icon on Search Returns But Not in Document Libraries

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Hi Everyone,

In MOSS 2007 Enterprise, all of my searches are returning the infamous
Red X "Item Icon" for all content types: email, xlsx, docx, etc. I've
checked permissions and I'm logged in as an administrator. It doesn't
matter which application pool or site collection I log in through, or
what I'm searching for: all returns are Red X's.

Interestingly, when I open up a document library, however, the icons
are there just fine. Thus, the issue is search dependent.

When I right-click "Properties" on the Red X icon from the searches,
it only gives me a partial address for the item: for example, a (what
should be) Word doc icon reveals http://<servername>/team/_layouts/
whereas when I'm in a document library and right-click an icon I can
see, such as the Word doc icon, I get a fuller URL:
http://<servername>/team/_layouts/images/icdocx.gif .

My deduction is that something is messing up the search's ability to
process the rest of the URL for the item icons from an XML file. But
what? Any ideas?

Thanks for any help,

Stephan

(cross posting from microsoft forums and thesug.org)
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