You mean you can't even see the search field? You, know, where you type what you wanna search.
In the new version, the dlds window appears only if you start dlding something: if there's no dlds going on, it just doesn't appear.

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
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LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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