Hi Ernest,
Adding to my comments above I continued my testing today and figured out that 2 instances of same search bar on the same page is creating issues. On home page I have a popup that shows settings of one instance and another instance as the search header of same search bar, I find on page load the settings is populated correctly on popup but the header search detaches the setting to be never shown again there. But when on a page there is only one instance of ASP ( example on header) running it shows perfectly with settings intact.
I am not sure why this is happening and how this can be fixed. Please help.
Many thanks
Sandy