When I wrote my book I did it using Windows Server 2003 R2 and in order. In other words anyone following it chapter by chapter would see what the screen shots show. No more, no less.
Now I'm using a WSS 3.0+SP1 installation (the same version number I used in the book) that was installed on Windows Server 2008 and I've done exactly the same installation of MSSX (Search server 2008 Express) on top of it that I did when writing the book. Only, oddly, things are different.
To save me writing it all again here's the text of a message I wrote today to the Search Server 2008 Express forum.
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I earlier installed MSSX on top of WSS 3.0 + SP1 on Windows Server 2003.
At the end of that process I went to (WSS) Central Administration/Application Management/Manage Web Applications and needed to Activate Office Server Enterprise Search and Office Server Site Server.
I then went to the (WSS) Home Page and went to Site Actions / Site Settings and three new Search selections (Search settings; Search sources; Search keywords) were listed under the Site Collection Administration section.
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I later installed MSSX on top of WSS 3.0 + SP1 on Windows Server 2008. (same version number of WSS 3.0)
At the end of that process I went to (WSS) Central Administration/Application Management/Manage Web Applications and Office Server Enterprise Search and Office Server Site Server were already activated.
I then went to the (WSS) Home Page and went to Site Actions / Site Settings and NONE of the three new Search selections (Search settings; Search sources; Search keywords) were listed under the Site Collection Administration section.
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Now I see this as extremely odd to say the least - unless the Search Server team have amended their download exe since I downloaded it for the book (which would be odd because that was the RTM version - not the beta). Can it really make such a big difference which Operating system you are running your apps on ?
The more serious problem is that the reason I had these details (and screen shots - so I can prove they look differently now) was because I showed in the book how to amend the standard WSS search box once you had installed MSSX to give more options. Even going manually to the Search Settings page at the WSS (as opposed to the MSSX) site and entering the value of the MSSX default page for where to search seemingly has no effect any more.
P.S. There's another curiousity. The book version of the Advanced search results (for MSSX) included a column with Live Search results. This so-called "Federated Search" was something that I hadn't specified in that Windows Server 2003 version (mainly because at the time I had no idea what Federated Search meant (!)), yet it was there, as the screen shot clearly shows. I even commented on it being there by using "no such thing as a free lunch - Live Search" as the caption of the screen shot. Now, in the present (Win 2008) version, there's no Live Search column (unless you go in an manually specify one). How odd.