Item Search - Not Working Anymore

If I try to do a search for an item, say that has "belt" in the description, I used to be able to put Description  = Any = Belt and it would return all items with belt in the description, active or inactive. Ditto Name = either the item number or the first few letters of the item number and it would return all that matched the query.

NOW (after the weekend's disastrous whatever that mess was yesterday) I put in Name = Any = first 2 letters, it flips ANY over to HAS KEYWORDS, and returns nothing. So I change it back to ANY after I put in the criteria, and it returns EVERYTHING. ALL items.  Same thing happens in the description area. This is highly highly frustrating and annoying (to go along with the frustrating and annoying SLOW system response which we experience all the time)