Hi Dan,
Q2) Sorry about that, I forgot.
This is a bit more complicated. Simply creating a template file will not move the results page from one location to another. WordPress has an automatic results page handler, which is triggered whenever the main site URL is hit with the presence of the “s” parameter, like: yoursite.com/?s=phrase
Only by creating a page/template on a different URL will not move the search results page there. Ajax Search Pro can only redirect to an existing results page handler, it will not move the actual results page to that URL.
The reason behind it is, that it’s rather complicated, it requires special mod_rewrite rules, which should not conflict with existing permalink structures and so on..
I generally do not recommend moving the results page slug, in most cases it generates more issues. However you can check out this tutorial on how to make a custom results page permalink. Keep in mind, that this may not work out of the box, for every case it is very different. I only recommend starting with moving the results page URL if you have experience in apache mod_rewrite rules and have some spare time.