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I'm running CiviCRM 4.0.8 on Drupal 7.10.....

If I go into an advanced search and enter a value in the street address field, the result set is not what is expected. This is because the search form defaults the country to the country selected in the Localization admin page. So, for a system like ours where we have thousands of contact records that were imported in many years ago (early version 2) , a lot of those records don't have a country listed at all. Any new records we create will obviously get the default country, but the issue is really with the search criteria - the system is pre-supposing that I want only records that have the country set and I have to go in and de-select the country to return the "correct" result set.

This is confusing to the end users - most of them don't even look at the "Street LIKE '%kitchen%' ...AND...Country = 'Canada'" that is displayed on the results page when all they've asked the system to do is find them contacts who live on Kitchen Road.

I'm not sure if this was an issue before the upgrade (I upgraded from 3.2), but I've only just noticed it. My suggestion would be to de-select the country in the address section of the advanced search - I think it would make it less confusing to end users.
Cheers,
Marty.
p.s. feedback so far on 4.0.8 has been great - "...it's more Mac like..." ;-)