I forgot to mention... I received a really nice note from Rick van Rein at OpenFortress digital signatures saying he's implemented my search highlighter over there. He made some nice mods to the legend to blend it into his site....
This script highlights searched words on your web page. Since it's implemented in JavaScript that runs in the browser, you don't need to do anything special on the server. It works in static HTML files as well as dynamically generated...
If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to a feed of all future entries matching 'javascript search term highlighter'. [What is this?]