@trukr:
since i'm lazy when i'm tired, and i'm tired A LOT, i'll be using this…A LOT.
found some stuff already. 
maybe an option in the profile to change the default way search currently works?
default is browse so people who don't read this thread (even if they look at it -lol) won't cry about pic browser, option is to restore search to it's default behavior.
checked categories are saved, but not active if the setting is to default (old) search version.
why? people can get aware of it, and if they not like it or need to search something switch over to the old way while clicking on "search"
before "search" and "browse" lead to the same script.
one thing is still different: search opened the browse page with no pre-selected categories from profile, while browse took them from users profile.