How exactly this page is being called?

It should be called like this

mypage.ASPX?item=myItem&cat1=MyCat 

I saw cat2 above, but now you have cat1 in your parameters.  Just compare your query to your parameters one more time.

Wow. If it's because I have cat1 LIKE cat2 in the statement that's on the server, that's a little embarrassing haha

 But the line that comes up in the URL is searchresults.aspx?item=whatever&cat1=whatever&search=Search, so at least that's right. But later I'll have to check what the source actually is and hopefully it's just a typo that's the problem.
 

 I fixed that little typo, but now it's saying the input string must be exactly one character long (http://testsite.melvinsmagicshop.com/shop/)... so a search for nothing returns nothing, and a search for a letter turns up nothing. Regardless of that fact, shouldn't a search for say, S, show all results at least starting with S?

This is becoming a pain haha, anyone know of any good tutorials for a search parameter thing that uses code behinds and all? I might as well just do that.

I think we were wrong and you need to use String as a type. See http://forums.asp.net/t/1312616.aspx

 Success!

But hey, now I know that Char only does one character, so that's a plus? I had an issue with using wildcards, but, I figured that one out on my own.

Thanks everyone!