Hi Ernest,
Thanks so much for the help with this issue! When I started to write this reply, I realized that I have a bigger problem than just excluding buddypress activities of admins from the search.
All users will have the option of making their BP profile and activity private, and this can be changed back and forth whenever the user wants. So if the search isn’t picking up on those settings from the plugin that establishes them, then it would probably be better for me to not use ASP to search users at all and just rely on a bp search plugin that integrates with the privacy plugin.
I don’t want you to do any extra work if I’m not going to need it, so I’ll have to get back to you about this.
Thanks again for the offer to help!
Cathy