Since you haven't modified the search form I'm guessing that perhaps the following errors within your sub html_record_form may be causing you problems.
<TD ALIGN="Right" VALIGN="Center"><Font COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="-1"><b> Type:</b></FONT>
|; print &build_select_field ("Type", "$rec{'Type'}"); print qq|></TD></TR>
change to (removing extra > before </TD>
<TD ALIGN="Right" VALIGN="Center"><Font COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="-1"><b> Type:</b></FONT>
|; print &build_select_field ("Type", "$rec{'Type'}"); print qq|></TD></TR>
Change:
<$font>Genetics : <br></FONT>
<TEXTAREA NAME="Awards" ROWS="2" COLS="20" WRAP="VIRTUAL" MAXLENGTH="255">$rec{'Genetics'}</TEXTAREA><br><br></TR>
To:
<$font>Genetics : <br></FONT>
<TEXTAREA NAME="Genetics" ROWS="2" COLS="20" WRAP="VIRTUAL" MAXLENGTH="255">$rec{'Genetics'}</TEXTAREA><br><br></TR>
before the ending table tag remove the extra </TD></TR>
Let us know if that fixes the problem with the search.
Rather than posting the complete html.pl file it's best to either post a text copy on your server and provide a url to where it can be viewed, or attach a copy to your post.
This makes it less confusing when searching the forums as people won't get the unrelated results due to entire files being within the posts.
I'm going to go ahead and remove the sub from your post. If you need further help, please use on of the above options :) Or provide a url to where your database can be viewed. Sometimes just looking at the source code of pages helps to spot html errors.
I didn't realize till I edited your message that you did provide the url .. it was hiding from view. When viewing the source of your search page I also noticed you have several instances of
  instead of
You may want to check your coding in sub html_record.
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<TD ALIGN="Right" VALIGN="Center"><Font COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="-1"><b> Type:</b></FONT>
|; print &build_select_field ("Type", "$rec{'Type'}"); print qq|></TD></TR>
change to (removing extra > before </TD>
<TD ALIGN="Right" VALIGN="Center"><Font COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="-1"><b> Type:</b></FONT>
|; print &build_select_field ("Type", "$rec{'Type'}"); print qq|></TD></TR>
Change:
<$font>Genetics : <br></FONT>
<TEXTAREA NAME="Awards" ROWS="2" COLS="20" WRAP="VIRTUAL" MAXLENGTH="255">$rec{'Genetics'}</TEXTAREA><br><br></TR>
To:
<$font>Genetics : <br></FONT>
<TEXTAREA NAME="Genetics" ROWS="2" COLS="20" WRAP="VIRTUAL" MAXLENGTH="255">$rec{'Genetics'}</TEXTAREA><br><br></TR>
before the ending table tag remove the extra </TD></TR>
Let us know if that fixes the problem with the search.
Rather than posting the complete html.pl file it's best to either post a text copy on your server and provide a url to where it can be viewed, or attach a copy to your post.
This makes it less confusing when searching the forums as people won't get the unrelated results due to entire files being within the posts.
I'm going to go ahead and remove the sub from your post. If you need further help, please use on of the above options :) Or provide a url to where your database can be viewed. Sometimes just looking at the source code of pages helps to spot html errors.
I didn't realize till I edited your message that you did provide the url .. it was hiding from view. When viewing the source of your search page I also noticed you have several instances of
  instead of
You may want to check your coding in sub html_record.
Unoffical DBMan FAQ
http://creativecomputingweb.com/dbman/index.shtml/